Erik,
Erik Nordmark wrote:
>
... major snip ...
>
> If we go this path (allowing different scope zones ids in sin6_scope_id)
> it might make sense to add parallels to the if_nametoindex() etc APIs.
> Either
> site_nametoindex(), site_indextoname(), site_nameindex()
> link_nametoindex(), ...
> or a more general set of routines
> sz_nametoindex(char *name, int scope_level)
>
> That way we can add protocol support (something like MZAP?)
> for advertising scope zone names in the future.
Dave Thaler and I are already looking into either an extension to
MZAP or an MZAP-like protocol for the scope name discovery work
item on the updated charter.
Brian
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