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From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Text for IPv6 Scope
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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?

fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::290:27ff:fe13:2540%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scope site


just my 2c
BMS