Subject: Re: IPv6: presentation format for zero scope ID

From: Brian Haley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:09 -0500

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