Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:17:35 +0000 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Text for IPv6 Scope Message-ID: <477F674F.7020706@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080104215626.GA88922@goku.pumpky.net> References: <20080104215626.GA88922@goku.pumpky.net>
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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
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