Re: ping fails for link local address( IPv6)

From: आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <wahjava@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:47:57 +0530

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:43:58 -0800, varma wrote:

[snipped]

[root@neo root]# ping6 fe80::2c0:a8ff:feff:cc24
connect: Invalid argument

Yes, because fe80::/10 is a link-local address, only valid on only local
physical link and should never be router. In order to send packets to this
address, you need to explicitly specify which outgoing interface to use,
either using '-I' switch of 'ping6' command or appending '%eth0' (or
similar, where eth0 is outgoing interface you wanted to use) to the
address.

It'll be better if you post this to comp.os.linux.networking :)

HTH
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References:
- ping fails for link local address( IPv6)
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