Re: IPv6 broken on Linux-2.4

Felix von Leitner (felix@convergence.de)
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:46:37 +0200

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> There are several problems with IPv6 in Linux. First of all, the kernel
> started to reject attempts to send packets to link-local addresses
> with scope_id not specified or 0 in sockaddr_in6.

By the way: the kernel does _not_ reject attempts to send IPv6 multicast
packets to addresses with link-local scope and scope_id 0.

It should, shouldn't it?

Felix

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