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Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:05:13 -0500

 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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