Re: ping: bind icmp socket: Invalid argument

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>]

Christopher Bodenstein <christopher.bodenstein@be.easynet.net> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:10:56PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
> When pinging local-link addresses, you should specify the interface
> with -I

Ahem, that works, thanks.  It's even written clearly in the manual.
Too bad that I tried using the interface address instead of the
interface name:

# ping6 -I fe80::214:22ff:fe13:e171 fe80::214:22ff:fe13:ed7a
ping: bind icmp socket: Invalid argument

where strace reveals

socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_ICMPV6) = 3
bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(0), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "fe80::214:22ff:fe13:e171", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

Am I using an overly old version of ping6?
# ping6 -V
ping6 utility, iputils-ss020927
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.