Re: linux-2.4.21 and IPv6

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <20030817020925.A875@keun> (at Sun, 17 Aug 2003 02:09:25 GMT), 
"w.szukalski" <szukw000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

>       read6.sin6_scope_id = 0;
:
> //    ALTERNATIVE 2:
>       inet_pton(AF_INET6, host, &read6.sin6_addr);
> 
> //    ALTERNATIVE 3:  
>       read6.sin6_addr = mreq6.ipv6mr_multiaddr;

What is host?


>     bind(reader, (struct sockaddr *)&read6, sizeof(read6) );
> 
> bind() fails for alternative 3 with 'Invalid argument'.

bind(2) should fail with ALT.2 for some "host."
Anyway, the reason seems that you forgot to set scope-id for
link-local scope addresses.

--yoshfuji