netdev - Re: IPv6: presentation format for zero scope ID

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Date:	Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:09 -0500
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
CC:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Linux Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IPv6: presentation format for zero scope ID

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
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