On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 02:46:53AM -0700, Ori Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 08:36:55PM +1100, Bruce Ellis wrote: > > Does anyone know what IPV6 addresses like fec0:0:0:ffff%1 mean and how to > > make a real (plan9) IPV6 address from them. > > > > Regards. > > > > brucee > > The portion before the '%' is a plain old (link local) ipv6 address. The > part after the '%' is a zone id. It's safe to ignore. > > Because link local addresses share prefixes, they may need to be told > what interface to come out of. They can be ignored safely enough, or if > you want you use an arbitrary string like 'fe80::%/net.alt' as the zone. > >
Careful. fec0: is site-local, not link-local, which is fe80:. I've never seen a zone ID attached to a site-local address; I thought the zone shit was introduced at the same time they deprected the site-local addresses... ipv6 is a shitshow. Cursory inspection of relevant RFCs does not lead to clarity. Godspeed. khm
