A shitshow is an apt description. I searched hard for an answer to my
question.

Regards,

brucee

On 1 April 2017 at 21:06, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 02:46:53AM -0700, Ori Bernstein 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.
> >
> >
>
> Careful.  fec0: is site-local, not link-local, which is fe80:.  I've
> never seen a zone ID attached to a site-local address;  I thought the
> zone shit was introduced at the same time they deprected the site-local
> addresses...
>
> ipv6 is a shitshow.  Cursory inspection of relevant RFCs does not lead
> to clarity.  Godspeed.
>
> khm
>
>