> From: François-Xavier Le Bail <fx.leb...@yahoo.com> > To: Kerry Lynn <kerlyn2...@gmail.com>; Tomoyuki Sahara <sah...@surt.net> >> ________________________________ >> From: Kerry Lynn <kerlyn2...@gmail.com> >> To: Tomoyuki Sahara <sah...@surt.net> >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Tomoyuki Sahara <sah...@surt.net> > wrote: >> >>> That sounds good to me too. >>> >>>> My ABNF is pretty rusty, so I offer the following extension to the > RFC 3986 >>>> IPv6address rule only as a starting point: >>>> / "FE80::" [ *3( h16 ":" ) h16 ] [ > "%" 1*4(ALPHA / DIGIT) ] >>> >>> I have some comments: >>> >>> - An interface name may be longer than 4 characters. But I know we > should >>> have some limit so I suggest 15 because it's maximum length of > interface >>> name on *BSD and Linux systems. >>> >>> - FYI, there was an attempt to define textual representation of zone > id: >>> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipngwg-scoping-arch-04#section-12 >>> >>> - Can we have a dot in interface name? On Linux systems, VLAN > interfaces >>> have one. An example in the draft above has "%pvc1.3" (may > be an ATM >>> interface?). >>> >>> >> Thanks for the reference. I'll take a look at it before revising the > ABNF again. > > Hi, > > In Linux, you can use any character in VLAN interface name : > examples: > ip link add link eth0 name eth0.5 type vlan id 5 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0-6 type vlan id 6 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0#7 type vlan id 7 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0-8 type vlan id 8 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0+9 type vlan id 9 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0_10 type vlan id 10 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0,11 type vlan id 11 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0:::12 type vlan id 12 > ip link add link eth0 name eth0.+- type vlan id 13 > > Thanks, > Francois-Xavier
Luckily, the "%" is invalid. Francois-Xavier -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
