Folks,
In the next few weeks I will be updating the base api to be in accordance
with the IEEE wording. I assume you all have reviewed that over the last
month.
I see no consensus on sin6_scope_id. Hence, I will do nothing to alter
its semantics or syntax.
/jim
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] 神明達哉 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,...
>
> 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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