Re: How to configure address selection policy for IPv6 (and IPv4)

On 2018-07-04, Gerlach, Hendrik <hendrik.gerlach@siemens.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> according to RFC3484 and it's successor (RFC6724) a IPv6 implementation should support a configurable address selection via a mechanism at least as powerful as the policy table defines in this RFC's.
>
> Found the powerful ip6addrctl command in Freebsd (derived from KAME's addrselect) , but it seem's that there is no such command for OpenBSD.
>
> My Questions:
> 1. Is there some possibility to show and manipulate the address selection policy in OpenBSD ?
> 2. if not: are there any plans to implement this in the near future ?
> 3. If not: is the kernel internal address selection policy conform to the default address selection policy in RFC6724 ?
>
> Thanks,
> Hendrik
>
>

There's no general way to do this in OpenBSD. It's not what you're
asking for but in some circumstances you may be able to workaround this
- if you have certain addresses configured that you do not want to use
as a source address you can set the address with "pltime 0".