Hi, Tsutsui-san


From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:54:56 +0900

> > > FreeBSD's eui64.[ch] is in libc.  eui64.[ch] is used by fwctl(8).
> > 
> >   FreeBSD's eui64.c is in libc.
> 
> I don't think "just following FreeBSD" is a good reason.
> We would like to know the reason why FreeBSD guys put them into libc.

Should I put eui64.c in libutil? Or, should I put it on usr.sbin/fwctl/.


> > fwctl(8) is control utility for IEEE1394. I renamed from fwcontrol(8)
> > to fwctl(8).
> 
> According to description of their eui64(3), theses functions are
> "IEEE EUI-64 conversion and lookup routines," so we should think
> which other utility could use such functions.
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/net/eui64.3
> 
> I don't know what is EUI64, but netinet6/in6_ifattach.c contains
> some EUI64 definitions. So could other network programs use it?

I don't understand.  X-<
I am not confirming it though it is likely to be able to use by NIS.
--
kiyohara