[ovs-discuss] GRE with link-local remote_ip: "not a valid IPv6 address"

Sven Gebauer mail at sgebauer.net
Tue Aug 27 16:40:15 UTC 2019


Am 27.08.19 um 17:12 schrieb Gregory Rose:
>> 2019-08-22T07:22:09.545Z|00050|socket_util|ERR|"fe80::1%ens9" is not a valid IPv6 address
> 
> Remove the '%ens9' from your IPv6 address, that's not valid.
>

Then how do i specify the scope (i.e. interface) of a link-local address?
The `ip` command has the `dev` option for this, but i couldn't find
anything like that in the OVS docs. The changelog [0] says that the
%-Notation is supported since v2.8.

Regards,
Sven

[0] https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/5c7ba90d8189ee7b35a1723d5a76dc205720af50/NEWS#L353


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