On Fri, 2006-07-04 at 08:06 -0600, Mark Butler wrote: > In IPv4, how is this information supposed to be communicated? The > possibilities I can see are: > > 1. Assuming link local based on SO_BINDTODEVICE. > 2. Adding a new field to sockaddr_in in a backward compatible manner > 3. Defining a new RTAX_xxxx route attribute > > Is there something I missed?
We already have a scope bitmap to define link local in netlink. Look at include/linux/rtnetlink::struct ifaddrmsg::ifa_scope. It should be a matter of setting that when adding the IP address from user space. iproute ip can already do it; so cutnpaste some of that code in your user space program. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
