question: source address on interface w/ aliases?

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:40:42PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:35:06AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > My expectation was that the primary IP address would be used.
> > 
> > 
> > The primary IP address on the interface referred to in the routing table
> > entry that is chosen for the first packet..
> > (last time I looked)
> 
> Such was my expectation.  But: is this a BSD-specific implementation?
> 
> If I catch a kernel doing otherwise, can I say 'Aha! That's a bug
> based on documented standards' ?

Since Solaris switching to doing round-robin in something like 2.4 or
2.5 (7-8 years ago) I doubt you'll have much luck arguing with Sun and
most any other implementation could point to them as a reason for their
choice.

-- Brooks

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