Re: Thoughts on address selection

2009-11-19 Thread Arifumi Matsumoto
Fred, On 2009/11/18, at 23:07, Fred Baker wrote: On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Arifumi Matsumoto wrote: As I wrote in another e-mail, rather than giving over everything to hosts, I think, giving hints for selecting addresses should be reasonable, at least in some environments. I

Re: Thoughts on address selection

2009-11-19 Thread Markku Savela
On Nov 18, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Arifumi Matsumoto wrote: As I wrote in another e-mail, rather than giving over everything to hosts, I think, giving hints for selecting addresses should be reasonable, at least in some environments. I would very much favor having an icmp message that

RE: Thoughts on address selection

2009-11-19 Thread Narasimhan Venkataramaiah
There is a similar API in Winsock2 that tries multiple destination addresses, but not every pair of destination and source address. In windows 7 you get every pair possible with some restrictions and the ordering is based on improving the chances of success of successful connection completion

Re: Thoughts on address selection

2009-11-19 Thread Scott Brim
Stig Venaas allegedly wrote on 11/18/2009 1:44 PM: Fred Baker wrote: On Nov 18, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Arifumi Matsumoto wrote: I guess that is because if you force to try all the pairs, it perfectly ignores the address selection manner defined in RFC 3484, and thus, it gives us not little

Re: Thoughts on address selection

2009-11-19 Thread Stig Venaas
Scott Brim wrote: Stig Venaas allegedly wrote on 11/18/2009 1:44 PM: Fred Baker wrote: On Nov 18, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Arifumi Matsumoto wrote: I guess that is because if you force to try all the pairs, it perfectly ignores the address selection manner defined in RFC 3484, and thus, it gives us