RE: About IPv6 private address

[Christian Huitema <huitema@windows.microsoft.com>]

> One complaint I have heard several time is, the notation is merely a de
> facto standard extension of getaddrinfo et al. Also, as far as I know,
> Windows does not implement it and for a reason:
>
> fe80::216:41ff:fee1:b7fd%"Network Adapter" would not be very convenient
> and
> fe80::216:41ff:fee1:b7fd%1 (if 1 is the scope ID is not very
> meaningful).

Where did you get that notion? Sitting in my home network, my laptop can easily ping another computer in the same network, as in:

C:\Users\huitema>ping flocon

Pinging flocon [fe80::d515:c438:f880:85f2%13] from fe80::302f:358b:14f2:c78d%13
with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from fe80::d515:c438:f880:85f2%13: time=1ms
Reply from fe80::d515:c438:f880:85f2%13: time=1ms
Reply from fe80::d515:c438:f880:85f2%13: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::d515:c438:f880:85f2%13: time<1ms

Ping statistics for fe80::d515:c438:f880:85f2%13:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms

Name resolution is performed using LLMNR, returning IPv6 local addresses. Simple and easy.

-- Christian Huitema