On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, John Jetmore wrote:
> Basic-ipv6/1001 recognizing IPv6 address in HELO/EHLO
> ** Command 2 ("client", starting at line 8)
> ** Return code 1 (expected 0)
> show stdErr, show stdOut, Continue (without file comparison), or Quit? [Q] O
> Connecting to fe80::214:22ff:fe18:95bc port 1225 ... failed: Invalid argument
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This IP address is a "link local" address. I don't understand enough
about IPv6 to say exactly what this means. I thought such addresses
would work as others do, but I see now from testing on my own box that
they don't. I get "invalid argument" when I try to telnet to the link
local address of my box.
What this means is that your interface is not configured with a "global"
IPv6 address, so the test suite has tried to use the link local address.
I have modified the test suite so that it won't use link local IPv6
addresses, so the next "release" will complain that IPv6 isn't running
in your situation. I guess you'll have to ifconfig your interface to set
something if it doesn't get an address by itself.
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