> Off the top of my head, I thought about a new rule to the RFC 3484. > It's really a simple rule, and seems to solve several problematic > cases related to address selection. > The rule is: > > Prefer to select an address as the source address that is > assigned by the selected next-hop. > > This rule assumes that the next-hop selection (rule 5) is already > performed before visiting this rule. Also, it assumes the address > assignment and routing are correlated. The second assumption does > not apply to every environment, but typically this is true for > a site that uses RA.
I think this is a good idea. we have talked on and off about it for a long time (I actually thought it was written down somewhere). it doesn't help in the case of multiple levels of routers though. cheers, Ole -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
