Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:31:59 +0000 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> To: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text for IPv6 Scope Message-ID: <864pdongvk.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> In-Reply-To: <477F674F.7020706@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080104215626.GA88922@goku.pumpky.net> <477F674F.7020706@FreeBSD.org>
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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? > > 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 Yes, I would want something like this too, we don't really need the numbers. Regards. -- Rui Paulo
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