(usagi-users 03294) Re: question about scope_id support for LL addresses

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ipv6.usagi.users
Organization USAGI Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]> (at Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:37:18 +0100), Michael McMahon <[email protected]> says:

> If you bind a socket to a host's link-local address, also setting the 
> scope_id
> for that interface, it does not seem to be possible to connect to that 
> socket
> from the same host.

Is this TCP?

> I found this behaviour in the standard 2.4.9 kernel. Can anyone tell me
> if this is a bug, and has it been fixed? It seems like a bug to me, because
> it ought to be possible to listen on a specific interface, but also receive
> packets from applications on the same host.

2.6.12-rc2 (or later) has fix for this.
I'll backport this to 2.4.

--yoshfuji
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