Hi Suresh, Thanks for the script.
The IPv6 LL addresses are shared using out of band protocol which works more at upper layer agnostic of L2 properties and gives consolidated list of LL IP addresses for all the VLANs. Parav --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Suresh Krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Suresh Krishnan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local > address - any RFC? > To: "Parav Pandit" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 8:04 PM > On 10-05-27 09:28 AM, Brian Haberman > wrote: > > You will need the scope_id in order to use > ping6. In order to send any > > packet to a link-local address, you will need the > scope_id first. > > +1. So my question to you is, how did you get the LL > address in the first place? That should give you clues as to > what interface you need the ping to go out on. If you are > really at a loss and you need to brute force probe, you can > write a small bash script to do this for you. Something > like > > for i in `ip address | grep "^[0-9]" | cut -d ":" -f 2`; do > echo "Pinging scope %${i}"; ping6 -c 1 > <The_Link_Local_Address>%${i}; done > > Cheers > Suresh > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
