Re: Wrap up and last call: sin6_scope_id semantics

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:31:26 +0200 (CEST), 
>>>>> Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>> Actually, since our (i.e. KAME/BSD's) getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo()
>> use this mapping, all applications that use those two functions are
>> affected, including ping, traceroute, ifconfig, netstat, route,
>> telnet, ssh, ftp,...

> I'm confused.
> When you ship a new release that supports a link ids, site ids, etc
> won't you also ship a getaddrinfo and getnameinfo which can handle those?

Of course I will.  However, we should also provide backward
compatibility to applications that are statically linked with older
libraries.  (probably my text in the previous message was unclear,
sorry).

> Thus I think the only concern should be for applications which
> directly use if_nametoindex or if_indextoname for sin6_scope_id.

So, unfortunately, this is not true, at least for some vendors
including us.

                                        JINMEI, Tatuya
                                        Communication Platform Lab.
                                        Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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