In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:54:47 -0600), Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> I have never been introduced to IPv6 addresses before and there are some > things about your documentation that baffle me. Perhaps I just need to > be educated a little, or perhaps it would be useful to include a little > more explnation in the documentation. RFC2373 Section 2.2 Text Representation of Addresses draft-ietf-ipngwg-scoping-arch-04.txt 12 Textual Representation > > +Note IPv6 link-local addresses can have a scope in the address specification: > > + > > +quote(fe80::1%eth0) > > +quote(fe80::%eth0/64) > > +quote(fe80::%eth0/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::) > > What's a link-local address? What's a scope? I think I get that the parts > after the '/' are masks, but what does it mean to have just two colons > in the address, with one field blank and the third one either 1%eth0 or > %eth0? BTW, we should use link1 instead of eth0. --yoshfuji -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
