Are there any routers between your system and the ping destination? It won't
work with link local addresses. You should assign global unicast to your
system.
> I have established an ad hoc connection (with help from people here)
> between my ipaq and laptop. I can ping their IPv4 addresses no problem.
> They have both been given IPv6 addresses but when I try and ping them I am
> told the network is unreachable. This to me sounds like the routing table
> is screwed.
>
> the IPv6 address of the laptop is fe80::dead:beef so I added this to the
> routing table
> Destination Next Hop
> fe80::dead:beef/10 fe80::dead:beef
You can't route link local addresses!
__________________________________________________________________
Florian Heissenhuber
IABG
Communication Networks
Email: heissenhuber@iabg.de
URL: www.iabg.de , www.ipv6.iabg.de
IABG mbH
Dept. IK42
Einsteinstr. 20
D-85521 Ottobrunn
Germany
Received on Sun Aug 5 23:52:45 2001
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