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RE: I-D ACTION:draft-coene-multi6-sctp-00.txt



Hi Coene,

> A section in the draft on SCTP multihoming issues deals with that:
> - if the host is able to fill in the IP address of the interface on which
> the msg is send out, then the return msg will arrive back on that same
> interface, not on the others. That mean that for the initial outgoing
> message, the source address will belong to the network to which
> the host is
> sending it, thus any ingress filtering within that network should let it
> pass(it is after all the address given out by that network(via DHCP,
> fixed...))
> - if the host allows to fill in the IP address of ANY interface as the
> source addres of the msg(example : source = IP1, addres of interface on
> which msg was actually send out was IP3) then ingress filter
> should drop the
> message(as should be expected)
> This is  basically implementation dependant in the host.

What happens when there are multiple addresses (with different prefixes)
assigned to the same interface?

Regards, marcelo