Subject: Re: "default" outgoing address
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/04/1999 18:37:52
[ On Thursday, February 4, 1999 at 09:43:44 (-0800), Paul A Vixie wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: "default" outgoing address 
>
> but if we're going there, i'd like the work ted lemon did for one of our
> old consulting customers to get integrated at the same time.  see
> 	ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/vixie/ifdefault/

Ah, yes, that's it.  Sorry Ted, I'd forgotten you actually did the work
and I'd lost the above URL....  :-(

> and if we're going to do all of that, it's time to consider the issues that
> prevent us from attaching multiple lan interfaces to the same subnet.  i've
> wanted to be able to receive connections on multiple physical interfaces on
> the same switch for some time now, and in that case we should do simple
> round robin for binding new outbound sockets to output interfaces (or on
> sending datagrams from unconnected sockets whose destinations are on a subnet
> to which we have multiple interface paths.)

Hmmm.... yes, something better would indeed be good on this front too.

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