Hello, I am currently writing some user-space stuff that require to get the IP address from the Eternet interface name (because the interface name is the one linked to the physical device). ipv4 let the a the ability to retrieve a single address using the itocl(SIOCGIFNAME) command. So I am wondering if the fact that this feature is left un-implemented in ipv6 is intentionnal or not. The currently implemented ipv6 ioctl commands only allow to set values, but not to retrieve them. BTW, I have also noted that a single IPv4 address can be retrieved using the ioctl(SIOCGIFNAME), whereas the ip(7) command gives the ability to add several IP addresses per interface (not speaking of the old "eth0:1" notiation, which is said to be deprecated). Thanks in advance for any help / explanation or pointer. Regards FiX -- François-Xavier 'FiX' KOWALSKI - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
