>>>>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:01:30 -0400,
>>>>> "Roy Brabson" <[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())?
> This may work when the default link-local zones are used, but how will it
> work in the presence of manually-configured link-local zones?
It simply won't. We're talking about some existing implementations
that assume a one-to-one mapping between links and interfaces.
> It is probably useful to have a standard (or at least agreed upon) way to
> map between the sin6_scope_id and the zone name, something akin to the
> if_nametoindex() and if_indextoname() calls for converting an interface
> name to an index and vice-versa.
Probably. But once we define clear semantics, it would not be so
hard.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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