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Re: [v6ops] Scope of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope-00.txt)

Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-7@u-1.phicoh.com> Thu, 07 January 2021 21:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Scope of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-ipv6-ula-scope-00.txt)
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>While I do agree that interface ID is much more closer to the truth, it
>seems that one reason for zone rather than interface ID for link-locals in
>RFC 4007 was to inform a multi-interface node that it had multiple
>interfaces attached to the same link, informing it that the corresponding
>interface link-local addresses are attached to the same link.

Are there any implementation that do this? And in particular how does
that work with the socket interface? I.e., with if_nametoindex and
if_indextoname.

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