Telnet Client Red Hat 7.2 IPv6 enabled ??

[Jean-Luc Richier]

In your mail dated Dec 12, 15:08 you wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Stig Venaas wrote:
>
>> It does support IPv6 and works quite nicely for me.
>
>Are you sure? Standard RPM telnet package in RedHat 7.2 is 
>telnet-0.17-20.i386.rpm and it doesn't support IPv6...
>
>Regards,
>
>Flavio.
>
sorry, it does support IPv6:
bastet.imag.fr(20) /usr/bin/telnet www6.ipv6.imag.fr
Trying 2001:660:181:1::50...
Connected to www6.ipv6.imag.fr.
Escape character is '^]'.

FreeBSD/i386 (luna.imag.fr) (ttyp1)
bastet.imag.fr(21) more /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
bastet.imag.fr(22) rpm -qf /usr/bin/telnet
telnet-0.17-20

BUT !!!  telnet only without path does not work, as:

bastet.imag.fr(23) which telnet
/usr/kerberos/bin/telnet
bastet.imag.fr(24) rpm -qf /usr/kerberos/bin/telnet
krb5-workstation-1.2.2-13

and kerberos telnet does not work with ipv6.

As for the original question, the problem is not telnet, but trying to connect
to a link local address. Therefore the scope of the connection is unknown and
telnet fails. The correct telnet is:

/usr/bin/telnet fe80::210:11ff:fe76:7800%eth0

using a scoped address.

Regards

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