I am having problems using an IPV6 address

[Rick Jones]

Albert Ozilov wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using polygraph version 2.8.1, and I am having problems using an 
> IPV6 address with the simple.pg workload, does anyone have a clue?
> 
> *Here is the error lines from the server:*
> 
> gadgets.cc:282: (s0) Success
> 
> gadgets.cc:282: (s0) Success
> 
> 000.00| FDs: 1024 out of 1024 FDs can be used; safeguard limit: 983 
> 000.00| resource usage:
> 
>         CPU Usage: 8msec sys + 348msec user = 356msec
> 
>         Page faults with physical i/o: 0
> 
> 000.00| group-id: 1133687c.22106c7c:00000004 pid: 27772 000.00| current 
> time: 1200927434.364076 or Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:57:14 GMT 000.00| fyi: 
> PGL configuration stored (383bytes) 000.00| fyi: no bench selected with 
> use(); will not attempt to create agent addresses
> 
> Server.cc:97: (s22) Invalid argument
> 
> error: the server `S101' cannot listen on [fe80::202:c902:21:4cb9]:80; 
> (s22) Invalid argument
> 
> 000.00| got 0 xactions and 0 errors
> 
> 000.00| shutdown reason: fatal error

Is this under Linux?  Linux requires setting the scope/index field of 
the sockaddr_in6 structure so it can pick from the possibly more than 
one link-local (fe80::) addresses on the system.  The linux 
getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() calls support a syntax for IPv6 
addresses which adds an interface name to allow it to find the correct 
index to put in the sockaddr_in6 structure:

fe80::202:c902:21:4cb9%<interfacename>

for example:

fe80::202:c902:21:4cb%eth2

otherwise, you need to use something other than link-local IPv6 addresses.

rick jones