Hi, I'm using bird as a replacement for radvd since the latter has a longstanding issue with sending adverts on unconfigured interfaces under complex conditions. Turns out bird has a similar issue :) Looking at the code, when opening the socket for an interface in radv_sk_open we set sk->iface as you'd expect, which should cause packets to be sent directly via this interface. However radv sends packets to the all-nodes multicasts address for periodic adverts, see radv_send_ra. This then calls sk_send_to which (eventually) calls sockaddr_fill6. Here rther we find this code: if (ifa && ipa_is_link_local(a)) sa->sin6_scope_id = ifa->index; This would seem to be the problem to me, since a=ff02::1 doesn't pass this check so the sendmsg call goes out without the interface-index being communicated to the kernel. It looks like that causes it to just pick a random interface though I would expect it to just multicast this. Not sure why that is but it's broken on our side either way. I'd add a check here for whether the saddr is link-local too. That should cover this case. Any comments/objections? Thanks, --Daniel