link-local

IPV6 link local multicasting.

I'm trying to figure out how to do the equivalent of an IPV4 broadcast using IPV6. I'm creating a non-blocking IPV6 UDP socket. From the side broadcasting i'm literally just doing a sendto "FF02::1" on port 12346. On the listen side I discovered I need to join the group so I did the following: ipv6_mreq membership; memset( ...

Why doesn't a %en0 suffix work to connect a link-local IPv6 TCP socket in Python?

Hi all, A week or so ago someone on StackOverflow asked why their Python code for connecting to an IPv6 link-local address wasn't working, and I replied that since it was a link-local address they needed to add a %en0 (or whatever the desired local-interface-name is) suffix to their target IP address. I thought I knew what I was talkin...