Re: sin6_scope_id (Re: SIOCGIFCONF and IPv6 addresses)

[Yuji Sekiya <sekiya@xxxxxxx>]

At Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:14:35 +0300 (MSK),
kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

Alexey, we understand your opinion. I think it is reasonable.

Actually, Yoshfuji's patch is just a conceputal one.
We have recognizeed that we have need to improve it in order to
adopt in Linux kernel. I describe our concepts regarding
sin6_scope_id below.

        - In each socket connection, we try to keep the status of
          whether sin6_socpe_id is or not, in order to keep
          backward compatibility at binary level.

        - We have recognized that it is a problem that we treat
          sin6_scope_id as ifindex in case of multicast.

        - We suggest the idea we can switch the behaviour of
          sin6_scope_id using /proc/net/ipv6_scope_id or someting.

We welcome your comments and suggestions. I think we need more
discussion and improvement. We are serious to introduce sin6_scope_id.

I hope you understand our point of view...
Regards.

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SEKIYA Yuji     USC/ISI  Computer Networks Division 7
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