On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:48 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Anything with an fe80:: prefix is a link local address, which > is only unique within the scope of a single LAN segment. Thus > if you want to send traffic to such addresses, you need to specify > the NIC to send the traffic out from. The vast majority of apps > using sockets have no way to let you do this. [dwmw2@i7 activesyncd]$ ssh fe80::21d:7dff:fe04:dbe2%eth0 Last login: Tue Jun 21 12:40:41 2011 from i7.infradead.org [dwmw2@twosheds ~]$ wget fails though: [dwmw2@i7 activesyncd]$ wget 'http://[fe80::21d:7dff:fe04:dbe2%eth0]/' http://[fe80::21d:7dff:fe04:dbe2%eth0]/: Invalid IPv6 numeric address. And curl is just broken for numeric IPv6 addresses completely: [dwmw2@i7 activesyncd]$ curl http://[2001:8b0:10b:1:21d:7dff:fe04:dbe2]/ curl: (3) [globbing] error: bad range specification after pos 9 I think you get a little further if you put the addresses in /etc/hosts. -- dwmw2 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel