In your previous mail you wrote: As Erik explained before, having per-socket knob provides better control on the implementation pieces
=> no, it gives the same kind of control, and only in modified pieces of code. and it can also satisfy per process behavior. => this is not true: I don't want to patch and recompile all applications. My concern is you provide a device then look for its usage, I prefer to get requirements and only after look for ways to satify them. > There is no equivalent in destination rules to SR7, so AI_XXXX_TMP & co > are useless (this is in fact obvious :-). Yes, SR7 does not have a corresponding DR?. But getaddrinfo() is supposed to sort the destination addresses keeping source address selection rules (in this case, its SR7) in mind. Hence the AI_PREFER_SRC_* flags make sense for TMP and PUBLIC. => if there are for each prefix a TMP and a PUBLIC addresses AI_PREFER_SRC_TMP & co are strictly useless so are candidate for a garbage collection when we'll run out of bits in ai_flag... Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------