Text for IPv6 Scope

[Rui Paulo]

At Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:17:35 +0000,
Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> 
> 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?
> >   
> 
> This kind of output might be cooler?
> 
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         inet6 fe80::290:27ff:fe13:2540%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scope site
> 
> 
> just my 2c
> BMS

Yes, I would want something like this too, we don't really need the numbers.

Regards.
--
Rui Paulo