Pekka, IOCTLs are not portable across many operating system API infrastructures. the sockets are and those apis. thats the reason. that being said check out the appendix of the suggested macros that should exist.
/jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-07.txt > > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Title : Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 > [...] > > This is probably a dumb question, but is there must be a > reason why these > API's don't talk at all about ioctl's etc? For example, I > see no standard > way of obtaining (all or some) of one's IPv6 addresses, or > whatever else > was useful with SIOC*. > > -- > Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, > Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" > Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
