From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
Linux Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IPv6: presentation format for zero scope ID
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2029A1.5010404@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E4B7973-D2C4-438C-9BF6-A35B343F2363@oracle.com>
Hi Chuck,
Chuck Lever wrote:
>> So this means that addresses with those prefixes should be treated like
>> any other address, right? If so, then I think the rpc_ntop6 shouldn't be
>> affixing scopeid's to site local addresses.
>
> As a final detail, we're trying to understand what is the correct
> treatment for site-local addresses. I've looked at RFC 3879. In
> late-model Linux kernels, is Jeff's interpretation correct, for
> application layer protocols like RPC?
Not sure if this answers the question, but recent Linux kernels only look
at the scope ID for link-local addresses.
-Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-09 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 21:45 IPv6: presentation format for zero scope ID Chuck Lever
2009-12-08 3:27 ` Brian Haley
2009-12-08 13:03 ` Jeff Layton
2009-12-08 15:57 ` Chuck Lever
2009-12-09 19:57 ` Chuck Lever
2009-12-09 22:50 ` Brian Haley [this message]
2009-12-10 18:19 ` Chuck Lever
2009-12-10 19:32 ` Brian Haley
2009-12-08 16:08 ` Chuck Lever
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