Hello. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:36:19 +0200), Peter Bieringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> In IPv6, the behavior is completly different: > > # ip -6 addr show dev eth0 |grep -w inet6 |grep -w global > inet6 2001:db8:0:1::11/64 scope global > > # ip -6 addr add 2001:db8:0:1::253/64 dev eth0 > > # ip -6 addr show dev eth0 |grep -w inet6 |grep -w global > inet6 2001:db8:0:1::253/64 scope global <- #2 !!!! > inet6 2001:db8:0:1::11/64 scope global <- #1 > > So the last added on is now the first in list. Also, it gets no > "secondary" flag and "ip" doesn't even support this flag. IPv6 does not have secondary flag. We even reuse that for IPv6 temporary addresses. > And the worse thing is that the first one in list (= last added one) is > now used as default for outgoing connections. Can be easily tested using > "ping6". : > Is this a bug (I hope so) or a (undocumented?) feature? An implementation decision. I do not favor changing this so far. --yoshfuji - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
