In your previous mail you wrote:
>>>>> 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,...
=> change the dynamic library and recompile all statically linked
applications?
So we should probably provide some trick to ensure backward
compatibility for such applications.
=> a MAY was proposed... But I am in favor of a *short* period with
the trick enabled by default.
Regards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
