Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:18:10 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text for IPv6 Scope Message-ID: <20080108220558.L36482@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <864pdongvk.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> References: <20080104215626.GA88922@goku.pumpky.net> <477F674F.7020706@FreeBSD.org> <864pdongvk.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net>
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Rui Paulo wrote: > At Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:17:35 +0000, > Bruce M. Simpson wrote: >> >> Crist J. Clark wrote: >>> Anyone up for adding text to the scopeid field in the ifconfig(8) >>> output for IPv6 addresses? Other OSes do. To avoid too much >>> disruption to the current format, the text is appended after the >>> currently printed hexadecimal field. >>> >>> Example: >>> >>> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >>> options=8<VLAN_MTU> >>> inet6 fe80::290:27ff:fe13:2540%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5(site-local) >>> >>> While we're at it, update the in6.h file to include all scopes >>> in RFC4291. >>> >>> Look OK? Anyone up for applying these? >> >> This kind of output might be cooler? >> >> inet6 fe80::290:27ff:fe13:2540%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scope site >> > > Yes, I would want something like this too, we don't really need the numbers. I'd go with something number+space+text as that going to least likely break existing scripts (unless they match on line end;). Another thing I am worried about is the output getting more likely >80 chars which is a bit of a pain. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT Software is harder than hardware so better get it right the first time.
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