(usagi-users 02000) Re: IPv6 in Linux kernel 2.4.19

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <72D09F11CC09B645ADE2890F6B442FD869D40F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:41:12 +0530), "Sivakumar Kuppusamy" <sivakumar.kuppusamy@xxxxxxxxx> says:

> I am trying to do a ping6 from machine A to machine B (both machines are
> on the same ethernet link). It is failing with error "bind icmp socket:
> Invalid argument". Do I have to install USAGI kernel patch to make this
> ping6 work? 

I suppose you're trying to ping6 to link-local address.
You need to specify link like this:
  % ping6 ff02::1%eth0

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