Re: Wrap up and last call: sin6_scope_id semantics

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

>>>>> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:20:30 +0200, 
>>>>> Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>  In your previous mail you wrote:
>    Thus the kernel needs to be able to tell whether the application
>    was statically linked against getnameinfo. This is hard as far as I
>    know.
   
> => the only easy way is to change something in system calls (AF_INET6
> value, system call numbers, ...). But how many real applications
> need scoped addresses? All examples I know are for system tools
> (ifconfig, ...) which are *not* real applications with only one
> (bad) exception: net$cape.

I'm not sure about the issue of "net$cape", but we (some KAME users
and I) sometimes use link-local addresses for ssh and telnet, in order
to log into an adjacent node (typically a router);

% ssh fe80::1234%2

However, we should only care about the sending side in such usages,
which would be (much) easier than the receiving side.  So, considering
the sending part only might be a reasonable way to go...

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