[ale] IPv6 interface identifiers

[mike at trausch.us (mike at trausch.us)]

On 08/17/2012 10:13 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Ah, but have you been using it on Linux?  Honestly, I don't know when
> this went into Linux, but it is definitely something that seems to be
> limited to Linux.  Not all OSes use the interface identifier.  It's
> certainly fouled up many-a-piece-of-software.   C.f. my issues with
> postfix a month or so ago.

Windows requires an interface ID as well, but it's specified as an
integer, since it doesn't name its interfaces because it's a retarded
piece of crap.

	--- Mike

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