(usagi-users 04057) Re: ping6 is sent out from wrong interface
From: Fey Marcus <hidden>
Date: 2008-06-25 07:51:05
Hi Naohiro,
I'm not convinced yet. I don't think it's correct that kernel or ping6 arbitrarily decides outgoing interface. Is this really an expected behaviour? Could you explain to me the reason of it, too? I think the behavior should be similar to IPv4.
It's due to routing.
Your routing table shows this:
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# route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
2001:2c0:418:1::/64 * U 256 0 0 eth0
2001:2c0:418:2::/64 * U 256 0 0 eth1
fe80::/64 * U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 * U 256 0 0 eth1
::::::
2001:2c0:418:1::1/128 * U 0 8 1 lo
2001:2c0:418:2::2/128 * U 0 5 1 lo
::::::
ff00::/8 * U 256 0 0 eth0
ff00::/8 * U 256 0 0 eth1
#
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...with eth0 being preferred over eth1 for multicast packets.
You could add a dedicated route for ff02::/16 to make the kernel output the packet via eth1.
Bye,
Marcus
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