At Sat, 27 May 2000 00:56:42 +0900,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp> wrote:
Sorry for my late response for old topic ...
> > Is this, that is, connect(2) for link local addr without sin6_scope_id
> > will fail, right behavior? If so, should we fix userland application?
>
> Yes, we should fix useland applications.
> Set sk->bound_dev (!= 0) if BEFORE connect(2) / bind(2), or they will fail;
> Bind(2) / connect(2) without sin6_scope_id while sk->bound_dev_is 0
> (or no default value is set) should be invalid.
> This is very reasonable behavior.
We have to specify the scope_id if we connect / bind socket with
link-local address.
However returning a error when scope_id is not set, it breaks the
backward compatibility of existing IPv6 applications...
Then I think YOSHFUJI's idea that we can set the default value
using proc interface is reasonable.
> Or,... we may want to select the default value of sk->bound_dev_if
> for link-local address by write to proc file-system like:
> # echo 1 > /proc/net/default_linklocal_scopeid
> and if connect(2) / bind(2) is called for link-local address without
> sin6_scope_id while sk->bound_dev_if is zero, sk->bound_dev_if
> will be set to 1 in the connect(2) / bind(2) function.
Regards.
-- Yuji Sekiya
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