Hi Bazsi, On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
I meant something like a telnet client, how do you tell telnet to connect to a link local address?
When I tried to do that I got an error:
telnet fe80::290:f5ff:fe28:b55e Trying fe80::290:f5ff:fe28:b55e... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Invalid argument
The reason I asked is to have a peek at the interface they provide for configuring the scope id.
I've now tried using telnet/ssh/ping6, and neither could connect to a link-local address. I don't see its use then, it should be used without further configuration, but it turned out it is not possible.
If you want to use a link-local address, you *must* specify the interface too - otherwise it'd be not unique. ping6 has got the '-I' flag for this, but apparently telnet does not support specifying the interface. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, kadlec@sunserv.kfki.hu PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary