IPv6 autoconf fails on multihomed host

[Ronald van der Pol]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 23:43:52 +0000, David Malone wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:01:26PM +0100, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> >         if [ ${rtsol_available} = yes -a -n "${rtsol_interfaces}" ]; then
> >                 # Act as endhost - automatically configured.
> >                 # You can configure only single interface, as
> >                 # specification assumes that autoconfigured host has
> >                 # single interface only.
> 
> It is odd - RFC 2462 actually seems to explicitly allow multihomed
> hosts, Section 5 says:
> 
>    For multihomed hosts, autoconfiguration is performed independently
>    on each interface.
> 
> however there might be an implementation detail that prevents this
> working properly.

Hmm, could be. I suppose each interface needs its own routing
(or reachability) table which holds the default router for that
interface? I think the BSD stack supports only one routing table.

	rvdp