yes, link local is just that, local to that link. so unless you tell it which interface, it has no idea which one to try.
On 2011-05-11 15:41, Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein<[email protected]> writes: > Paul> Just playing around with IPv6 at home and wondering why ssh -6 > Paul> fe80::200:50ff:fe8a:103b > > Paul> fails while > > Paul> ssh -6 fe80::200:50ff:fe8a:103b%eth0 > > Paul> succeeds. > > Paul> Will I always need to specify an interface for link-local > Paul> addresses? > > I think so. Because the link local network is the same on every > interface (??), it otherwise doesn't know which interface should get > the packet. > > Solution: use a global scope address instead! :-) > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
