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Subject: Re: ip -6 addr flush dev <device> flushes also the autogenerated link-local address
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> BTW: how many scopes are currently defined? 
> 
> ip help shows me:
>  SCOPE-ID := [ host | link | global | NUMBER ]
> 
> What means NUMBER and why is "site" understood but not in online help?

The kernel hardcodes the following scopes internally:
0 {global | universe}
200 site
253 link
254 host
255 nowhere

Additional names may be assigned to numbers in /etc/iproute2/rt_scopes