From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Bieringer Subject: Re: Re: Re: IPv6 enabled Network services Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:13:54 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <31010000.1045138434@worker.muc.bieringer.de> References: <20030213111557.21921.qmail@webmail27.rediffmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: santosh kumar gowda Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20030213111557.21921.qmail@webmail27.rediffmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --On Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:15:57 AM +0000 santosh kumar gowda wrote: > Dr.Peter, > > I'm able to ping (using ping6) from both the machines. > > But, when i perform telnet, in machine-1 with Linux version > 2.4.18-3smp gcc version 2.96, Red Hat Linux 7.3, i get > ># telnet fe80::2b0:d0ff:fed2:65ff > Trying fe80::2b0:d0ff:fed2:65ff > telnet: connect to address fe80::2b0:d0ff:fed2:65ff: Invalid > argument > > And the machine-2 with Linux version 2.4.18-14 (gcc version 3.2 > 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7), i get > ># telnet fe80::250:daff:fed2:d90e > fe80::250:daff:fed2:d90e: Unknown host > > In case, if i need to upgrade telnet, ftp, etc, suggest me where i > can find them. Any docs for the same. looking forward for ur help Grmmml, read FAQ in HowTo: do not use link-local addresses for normal purposes, they won't work because of the scoping issue. Configure and use site-local instead. Peter -- Dr. Peter Bieringer http://www.bieringer.de/pb/ GPG/PGP Key 0x958F422D mailto: pb at bieringer dot de Deep Space 6 Co-Founder and Core Member http://www.deepspace6.net/