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Quick tip: Link local addresses in IPV6 are mandatory and all start with "fe80:". If you've enabled IPv6 on your machine but don't use IPv6 on your network, this is probably what you will see from ifconfig.

If you try to ssh user@fe80:0123::1, for example, you'll get an invalid argument error from connect(). In this case, you'd do an ssh user@fe80:0123::1%eth0, assuming that address is the link local address of eth0 on that host. Alternatively, don't use the link local address.



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