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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

  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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