Sebastien Roy wrote:
> 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.

I was aware of that... I was trying to make the point that it's not obvious
unless you're caching IETF specs like that in your head.

What I was digging for with this question is whether or not there would
be a column in ipadm output named "scope" that either replaces or is
present along with "index".

Darren


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