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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:41:41 +0200
From:      "Rainer Bredehorn" <Bredehorn@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getifaddrs & ipv6 scope
Message-ID:  <20120413064142.10640@gmx.net>

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Hi!

> I have noticed that getifaddrs() does not have sin6_scope_id set to
> the interface id for link local addresses on AF_INET6 types. Running
> the following program gives different results on Linux

ifconfig shows the scopeid according to the interface:

inet6 fe80::208:9bff:fe13:784e%fxp1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 

Are you talking about the scope value of an multicast address or
the scopeid for link local addresses?

Best regards,

Rainer.


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