>
> > - should we extend this model to the reception side, ie. one matches
> > only when the incoming interface belongs to the right zone?
>
> Are you talking about using bind() to limit the zone of acceptance?
>
Good lord, if I had known what it was going to lead to I would never
have suggested adding a scope (zone) identifier to the sockaddr_in6.
Can anyone explain how being able to restrict the flow of globally
addressed datagrams to some set of interfaces is going to be useful to
Joe Average application writer?
What is wrong with simply numbering an attached nodes interfaces starting
at one and numbering a nodes attached sites starting at one?
I am just not getting what we are gaining or likely to gain by attempting
to number these zones from the same identifier space and then allowing
all these degrees of freedom in how the sin6_scope_id is interpreted.
I find it difficult to get most application writers to understand select().
Do we really believe that this level of complexity is going to be understood
sufficiently by application writers to make use of it.
I am dubious that it will. I will shut-up now and keep reading.
Tim Hartrick
Mentat Inc.
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