It doesn't work if I ignore it. ip(2) doesn't mention '%'

Regards,

brucee

On 1 April 2017 at 20:46, Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 08:36:55PM +1100, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> > Does anyone know what IPV6 addresses like fec0:0:0:ffff%1 mean and how to
> > make a real (plan9) IPV6 address from them.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > brucee
>
> The portion before the '%' is a plain old (link local) ipv6 address. The
> part after the '%' is a zone id. It's safe to ignore.
>
> Because link local addresses share prefixes, they may need to be told
> what interface to come out of. They can be ignored safely enough, or if
> you want you use an arbitrary string like 'fe80::%/net.alt' as the zone.
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