Re: strange error when trying to ping6 all hosts

[Simon Oosthoek <simon@margo.student.utwente.nl>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:30:50PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:09:47PM +0200, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I have a mysterious problem (to me ;-)
> > I'm trying to ping6 ff02::1, but I get the error: connect: Invalid argument
> 
> That's because you didn't specify an interface. If you want to
> communicate with something that has link scope, you need to specify the
> link you want to use, like so:
> 
> ping6 -I eth0 ff02::1

Ah you're right, that does work. The "official" notation like ff02::1%0 or
ff02::1%eth0 doesn't work though... I thought I had tried specifying the
interface, but aparently not.

Thanks

Simon