On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:27:41PM +0200, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:16:50PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > Christian Pinedo zamalloa wrote: > > [..] > > > The router could change IPv6 routing preferences and the PC should > > > know which IPv6 address use as origin address. Is this possible to > > > announce in router advertisement messages? Am I completely lost? xD > > > > Theoretically, with newer kernels, it is possible to configure source > > routing, as part of policy routing in general. Though I've understood > > that it is not correctly working in quite a few cases. > > > > There is absolutely zilch advantage in this setup. When the upstream > > link breaks your (TCP) connection breaks. Then your host my try to > > connect again and it will try the old address, as there is no > > information that the upstream link is actually down, timeout, fail, and > > try the other link (if lucky that it does).... not practical > > > > > > Advice: use one single prefix. Or try HIP (Host Identity Protocol) > > > > After your comments I understand that having more than two global IP addresses > is more problematic than useful. Thanks for your ideas, > After reading more about my doubts and using the wikipedia :) I could say that the scenario I presented is a typical case of multihoming on IPv6 so I will investigate more. Thanks for your help, -- Christian Pinedo Zamalloa (zako) PGP key at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x828D0C80 Fingerprint: 7BFF 4105 F46B 7977 BD96 348C 1007 4FF8 828D 0C80
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