Re: Squid not listening on IPv6 fe80:: link-local address

[Marco Gabriel <mgabriel@inett.de>]

Hi Petter, hi Mike,

[Petter Reinholdsen]
> > My guess is that you need to specify the network interface using the % 
[Mike Gabriel]
> nope, link-local IPv6 addresses are always related to a specific 
> interface. This is btw. not at all Linux related, IMHO. (Or is it?)
>
> The challenge is that fe80:: is always the link-local prefix, for all 
> link-local networks/interfaces on the same host. So, sending packets 
> to a link-local address always requires the outgoing network interface 
> to be specified with the packet send request.

I wasn't aware of that but it makes sense. it worked when I tried to 
suffix the address with %eth0 and I was able to connect to squid from a 
workstation.

Marco




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