On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 18:46 +0100, Ed Kapitein wrote: >Hi mike, > >I have a working setup with an ipv6 tunnel and can connect from all my >internal hosts to ipv6 hosts. >But i cannot ping the link local addres of my router, and beacause it is a >link local address, AFAIK you can not ping it from other hosts. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ping6 fe80::2e0:c5ff:febc:4aa3 >connect: Invalid argument
Try: ping6 -I eth0 fe80::2e0:c5ff:febc:4aa3 or whatever interface it is on. Also try: ping6 -I eth0 ff02::1 (all hosts) ping6 -I eth0 ff02::2 (all routers) some ping6 apps also allow "ping6 ff02::1%eth0" or instead of eth0 the linknumber, though -I always works correctly how you expect it to. See also: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ping6 2001:960:2:4c1::2 >PING 2001:960:2:4c1::2(2001:960:2:4c1::2) 56 data bytes >64 bytes from 2001:960:2:4c1::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.508 ms >64 bytes from 2001:960:2:4c1::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.491 ms That is because with a link-local address you have to specify the link (read: interface) ;) Greets, Jeroen
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