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Re: ipv6 question


From: ann kok <oiyankok () yahoo ca>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:19:11 -0800 (PST)

Hi

Thank you. I try your way.  the ipv6 address is on eth0 interface.

I try to run ping6 the fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1%eth0

lt is same problem!

Any idea?

Thank you


2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:0c:29:3c:92:a1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.12/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
    inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1/64 scope link tentative 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever


# ping6  fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1
connect: Invalid argument
# ping6  fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1%eth0
connect: Invalid argument


--- On Fri, 3/11/11, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>
Subject: Re: ipv6 question
To: "ann kok" <oiyankok () yahoo ca>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Received: Friday, March 11, 2011, 2:21 PM
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:15:36 PST, ann
kok said:

inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1/64 Scope:Link

This is a link level address, only valid on one
interface.  So you need to look
at which interface it is attached to in the ifconfig
output.

ping6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1
connect: Invalid argument

ping6 wants the interface name for link-scope addresses,
because on some
hardware setups, the same MAC is used for all interfaces,
which means that
each interface has the same link-scope address.  So to
disambiguate it,
you have to feed it the interface name so it knows which
link to use.

On my laptop, I currently have:

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet 
HWaddr 00:24:D6:53:C5:BA
    inet6 addr: fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba/64
Scope:Link

% ping  fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba%wlan0
 ping6  fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba%wlan0
PING
fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba%wlan0(fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba) 56
data bytes
64 bytes from fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.072 ms
64 bytes from fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255
time=0.081 ms
64 bytes from fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255
time=0.090 ms
^C
--- fe80::224:d6ff:fe53:c5ba%wlan0 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time
1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.072/0.081/0.090/0.007 ms






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