RE: support ipv6 link-local addresses

["Craig, Dave" <dwcraig --at-- qualcomm.com>]

Linux 2.6.4, RedHat 9 modified to support 2.6.

Iperf version 1.7.0.

Global IPv6 works fine.  It is only link-local that appears to have a
problem.  Link-local addresses need to have an interface specified for
connect(), since routing the address is not sufficient to determine the
outbound interface.

	Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iperf-users --at-- dast.nlanr.net
[mailto:owner-iperf-users --at-- dast.nlanr.net] On Behalf Of Matthew J
Zekauskas
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:48 AM
To: iperf-users --at-- dast.nlanr.net
Cc: Craig, Dave
Subject: Re: support ipv6 link-local addresses

What platform?  What iperf version?

I recall using them a while ago with FreeBSD when I was tweaking
1.x (6?) for ipv6, but I haven't tried them recently.  We do
use iperf all the time (2.x mostly now I think, but also 1.7) on
Linux RH9 with global ipv6 addresses...

--Matt

--On Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:42 AM -0800 "Craig, Dave"
<dwcraig --at-- qualcomm.com> wrote:

>
>
> Does IPerf support IPv6 link-local addresses?  I notice the server
gets an EINVAL when attempting
> to connect back to a client using a link-local address.  It probably
needs to use %interface
> extension for the link-local address used in the sockaddr parameter to
connect().
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>             Dave Craig
>
>
>
> QUALCOMM Incorporated