Re: SIOCGIFaaa ioctls and IPv6 interfaces

[Kristine Adamson]

Thanks for the feedback.  Was there ever any discussion in the IPv6 working group in regards to creating a standard set of ioctl() function calls, similar to the SIOCGIFaaa ioctls, the could either be used wit IPv6 interfaces, or which could be used with both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces (i.e., version-neutral)?

Kristine Adamson
IBM Communications Server for MVS: TCP/IP Development
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/04/2004 08:01:36 AM:

> > Hello,
> >    Are there any interface ioctl() function calls, similar to the
> > SIOCGIFaaa calls, that we could use to retrieve data about IPv6
> > interfaces?  Thanks!
> >
> > Kristine Adamson
> > IBM Communications Server for MVS: TCP/IP Development
> > Internet e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> There are heaps.  Every vendor has their own set which
> make life fun for anyone that need to actually do it.
>
> Note there are duplicate MACRO names that take different
> arguements.  There are duplicate structure names with
> different contents.
>
> None of it is well documented.

> Mark
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