At Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:41:52 +0000,
"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:

> > The issue you mentioned comes from an implementation decision of the
> > KAME IPv6 stack.
> > The attached patch should address it.  However, it may break the
> > applications which expect that getifaddrs() returns a link-local
> > address with KAME's embeded scopeid representation.  I'm not sure
> > there are such applications, for now.
> 
> There should be none.  If we have some we should fix them.  I wonder if this 
> should actually be done in the kernel to limit the scope of the embedded 
> scopeid to our kernel for now?   Do we have other interfaces (ignoring kvm) 
> that export the embedded scopeid?

I suspect most of routing related implementations (most notably,
route6d and quagga) still rely on the embedded scope (zone) ID for the
data exchanged over a routing socket.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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