Subject: Re: IPv6: interoperability ?
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/17/1999 20:40:13
> The 4th byte is only for kernel internal use. They will not appear
> on the wire. This is a kind of messy but is necessary for scoped
> address support. Other IPv6 stacks tries to GUESS outgoing interface,
> and KAME team believes that the guessing is the wrong way.
> See sys/netinet6/{TODO,IMPLEMENTATION}.
inet6(4) also talks about this issue.
itojun