002 10:59:45 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > I'm talking about 1 name with multiple addresses being > > returned in multiple scopes. I'm taking about having > > getaddrinfo() then filter out the inappropriate addresses > > using local knowledge and setting sin6_scope_id. > > Via this mapping table thingie, which I suppose we could > configure easily enough using DHCPv6. So what happens when > the mapping table isn't configured, is misconfigured, or > somebody passes a raw scoped IP address into some other scope?
In a mission critical network an error like this could mean someone is dead for one thing. The above assumes DHCPv6 would have the knowledge of the network or we would need new options to negotiate SLs and topology in general. That will take awhile to parse IMO in the WG and here. /jim -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
