On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:10 +0100, Darren Reed wrote:
> Well, to compare the output of ifconfig on onnv:
> nge0: flags=202000840<RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2
>         inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe55:a156/10
>         ether 0:e0:81:55:a1:56
> with BSD:
> tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::211:d800:9d:98a6%tun0 ->  prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
> 
> you could be forgiven into thinking that onnv doesn't supports scopes.

The scopeid for link-local addresses is defined (by the IETF) as the
interface index.  That's in the existing ifconfig output.  If there is
ever a new scoped unicast address type defined for which the scope-id is
not the interface index, then the ifconfig output (or ipadm output)
could include that scope-id as well.

If the now thankfully defunct IPv6 site-local address is an indicator,
such an address will not be defined in the near future.

-Seb



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