dhcpcd-discuss

On Saturday 07 May 2016 11:05:30 Bernd May wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 06.05.2016 18:30, Roy Marples wrote:
> > But why would you want to do this anyway?
> 
> I though that maybe Matej wanted to use both uplinks in paralell,
> depending on the chosen source prefix. I think in multi-access networks
> this might be useful, if you want to explicitly use, e.g. your LTE uplink.
> 
> I use this setup rather extensively while working on a network layer
> socket prototype that should automagically choose the source prefix
> based on further preferences like network router bandwidth or RTT to a
> given target. That way it might be possible for an application to use an
> uplink based on application preferences for a network, e.g. a streaming
> client or a VOIP app.
> Using source policy routing allows me to manage one routing table per
> announced prefix and have a default gateway per prefix.

Not sure I fully understand that, but happy to accept patches.

> RDNSS and DNSSL are still a little problem though, because resolvconf
> only uses the top three nameservers reported from all interfaces. Maybe
> adding prefix information via a hook script will help me on that.

Not exactly true :)

resovlconf (well openresolv at any rate) can configure unbound, dnsmasq, bind 
etc to forward the domain (or search) given in each resolv.conf file to the 
listed nameservers only.

http://roy.marples.name/projects/openresolv

Roy