Re: Wrap up and last call: sin6_scope_id semantics

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:40:25 +0200 (CEST), 
>>>>> Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Seems like, to the extent that there are existing applications
> which use if_nametoindex() -> sin6_scope_id for link-local addresses,
> we need to also support the top 4 being zero as an alias for the 
> interface or link scope.

> Does anybody know of such applications?
> Does anybody know of applications doing the reverse (taking sin6_scope_id
> and passing it to if_indextoname())?

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,...

So we should probably provide some trick to ensure backward
compatibility for such applications.

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