Text for IPv6 Scope

[Michael Smith]

Hello All:

I think we're crossing the streams here.  The Site Local (FEC0::/10)  
has been deprecated.  The fe80:: is Link Local and is very much alive.

Regards,

Mike

On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> aren't site-local IPv6 addresses depreceated (RFC 3879)? So shouldn't
> the site-local stuff be removed?
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:56 PM, 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?
>>
>> Patches (diffs off of a not-too-current CURRENT):
>>
>> Index: sbin/ifconfig/af_inet6.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /ncvs/freebsd/src/sbin/ifconfig/af_inet6.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.5
>> diff -u -r1.5 af_inet6.c
>> --- sbin/ifconfig/af_inet6.c	3 Feb 2007 03:40:33 -0000	1.5
>> +++ sbin/ifconfig/af_inet6.c	4 Jan 2008 21:53:26 -0000
>> @@ -290,8 +290,31 @@
>> 	if ((flags6 & IN6_IFF_TEMPORARY) != 0)
>> 		printf("temporary ");
>>
>> -        if (scopeid)
>> -		printf("scopeid 0x%x ", scopeid);
>> +        if (scopeid) {
>> +		printf("scopeid 0x%x", scopeid);
>> +		switch (scopeid) {
>> +		case __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_INTFACELOCAL:
>> +			printf("(interface-local) ");
>> +			break;
>> +		case __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_LINKLOCAL:
>> +			printf("(link-local) ");
>> +			break;
>> +		case __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_ADMINLOCAL:
>> +			printf("(admin-local) ");
>> +			break;
>> +		case __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_SITELOCAL:
>> +			printf("(site-local) ");
>> +			break;
>> +		case __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_ORGLOCAL:
>> +			printf("(org-local) ");
>> +			break;
>> +		case __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_GLOBAL:
>> +			printf("(global) ");
>> +			break;
>> +		default:
>> +			putchar(' ');
>> +		}
>> +	}
>>
>> 	if (ip6lifetime && (lifetime.ia6t_preferred ||  
>> lifetime.ia6t_expire)) {
>> 		printf("pltime ");
>> Index: sys/netinet6/in6.h
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /ncvs/freebsd/src/sys/netinet6/in6.h,v
>> retrieving revision 1.44
>> diff -u -r1.44 in6.h
>> --- sys/netinet6/in6.h	28 Mar 2006 12:51:22 -0000	1.44
>> +++ sys/netinet6/in6.h	4 Jan 2008 21:44:36 -0000
>> @@ -271,6 +271,7 @@
>> #define IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_NODELOCAL	0x01
>> #define IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_INTFACELOCAL	0x01
>> #define IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_LINKLOCAL	0x02
>> +#define IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_ADMINLOCAL	0x04
>> #define IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_SITELOCAL	0x05
>> #define IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_ORGLOCAL	0x08	/* just used in this file */
>> #define IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_GLOBAL		0x0e
>> @@ -278,6 +279,7 @@
>> #define __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_NODELOCAL	0x01
>> #define __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_INTFACELOCAL	0x01
>> #define __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_LINKLOCAL	0x02
>> +#define __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_ADMINLOCAL	0x04
>> #define __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_SITELOCAL	0x05
>> #define __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_ORGLOCAL	0x08	/* just used in this file */
>> #define __IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_GLOBAL	0x0e
>> -- 
>> Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark at alum.mit.edu
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