On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> IPv6 addresses have a notion of "scope", or "size of area where the
> address has a meaning".
Yes, that I knew about.
> For addresses with link or site scope, there is no guarantee that the
> same machine won't have the same address on several of its
> interfaces. It is thus necessary to say which one is intended. At the
> sockaddr_in6 level, this is given by an integer index in the
> sin6_scope_id.
Aha! That's new to me.
> Some references I've found by googling around:
Thanks. I've added this to my list of things to think about.
Philip
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