IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

Jack Bates jbates at brightok.net
Thu Oct 21 23:05:13 UTC 2010


  On 10/21/2010 5:56 PM, George Bonser wrote:
>
> How does your application on the host decide which address to use when
> sourcing an outbound connection if you have two different subnets that
> are globally routable?
>
Many systems generally will go with the closest source address bitwise 
to the destination address. Not perfect, but works. This assumes that 
the source addresses are equal on other metrics.

Jack




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