Subject: Re: scopeid on NetBSD-1.5.1 branch
To: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/15/2001 03:22:43
>>On several machines running netbsd-1.5.1_ALPHA, ifconfig gives
>>scopid's that do not make much sense. For example:
>>le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> address: 00:60:b0:c1:59:44
>> media: Ethernet autoselect
>> status: active
>> inet6 3ffe:2a00:100:3008:260:b0ff:fec1:5944 prefixlen 64
>> inet6 fe80::260:b0ff:fec1:5944%le0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>>It looks like the scopeid shows the interface-id instead. Is my
>>source/includes messed up or do others see the same? Just checked;
>>I see the same on a machine running -current.
> why do you say they don't make sense? they do make sense to me.
> what did you expect if the above does not make sense?
aren't you mixing up scope identifier (0x1 for linklocal in this case)
and interface identifier (260:b0ff:fec1:5944 for this interface)?
itoun