Application support of scope information specified on host name or IP address

Table 1 lists the applications that accept scope information (for example, interface name or interface index) as part of a user-specified or user-configured host name or IPv6 address. The topic of scope information is described in more detail in Support for scope information .

Table 1. Application support for scope information
Application	Support level
FTP client	Scope information can be specified on host name or IPv6 address provided as command input. Scope information can be specified on host name or IPv6 address provided as input on the OPEN subcommand. Scope information can be specified on host names or IPv6 addresses in NETRC configuration information
FTP server	Scope information can appear in SMF records or in banner lines.
MVRSHD	Scope information can be specified on host names coded in `userid`.RHOSTS.DATA configuration file
Ping	Scope information can be specified on host name or IPv6 address representing the destination host. Scope information cannot be specified as part of the source IP address operand. Scope information cannot be specified as part of the interface operand
REXEC/OREXEC	Scope information can be specified on host name or IPv6 address provided on command input.
RSH/ORSH	Scope information can be specified on host name or IPv6 address provided on command input.
Syslogd	Scope information can appear as part of host name information generated as syslog output. Scope information cannot be specified as part of selector host name information
Traceroute	Scope information can be specified on host name or IPv6 address representing the destination host. Scope information cannot be specified as part of the source IP address operand. Scope information cannot be specified as part of the interface operand