>>>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:08:00 +0200,
>>>>> S�bastien Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> First of all, please tell us the OS you're using and its version. The
>> API spec about the sin6_scope_id field are still quite vague, so the
>> situation may differ among different OSes (and their versions).
> I use a red hat Linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4).
Then basically I cannot give you a useful hint, since I'm not familiar
with Linux. Perhaps someone else in this list can do.
>> Secondly, I in fact do not understand your question...what did you
>> mean by "the kernel doesn't fill that field up"? Are you talking
>> about the receive side?
> I'm talking about the receive side(destination). If I don't fill up the
> sin6_scope_id field with the interface index, the connect() call doesn't work.
> Why can't the kernel fill that field for the user? Maybe it could but I have
> some problem....
> Here's how I set up the address for the destination. I let the kernel bind the
> source address:
??? It seems to me that you're talking about the "sending side"...
Anyway, as I said in the previous message, there is no answer to your
question "why?", unfortunately, since there is no standardized usage
of this field. That highly depends on the OS implementation.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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