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2009-08-26

Using SSH to connect to a link-local IPv6 address

It turns out that the self-assigned IPv6 addresses you see are not unique; they're only guaranteed unique on each interface. To ssh to one, you'd need to run:

ssh fe80::21c:c0ff:fe52:c5ec%eth0

for example, where %eth0 specifies eth0.

Posted by bombcar at 12:29  

Labels: IPv6, linux, SSH

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