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Maheswarreddy Utukuru
Maheswarreddy Utukuru

Reputation: 512

Ipv6 UDP host address for bind

I am interested to do socket programming. I would like send and receive Ipv6 UDP server socket programming for raspberry (conneted with ethernet cable and opened in Putty). After surfing coulpe of sites I have got confusion with IPv6 UDP host address. Which type of host address should I use to send and receive message ipv6 UDP message.

is the link local address

example:

host ='fe80::ba27:ebff:fed4:5691';//link local address to Tx and Rx from Raspberry

or

host = 'ff02::1:ffd4:5691'

Thank you so much.

Regards, Mahesh

Upvotes: 0

Views: 527

Answers (1)

user_ABCD
user_ABCD

Reputation: 347

You can use host ='fe80::ba27:ebff:fed4:5691', assuming you only have one link.

Link-Local addresses (Link-Local scope) are designed to be used for addressing on a single link for purposes such as automatic address configuration, neighbor discovery or when no routers are present. Routers must not forward any packets with Link-Local source or destination addresses to other links.

So if you are sending data from a server to a raspberry pi (1 link), you can use the link-local scope for you IPv6 address.

host = 'ff02::1:ffd4:5691' is the link-local multicast scope, unless you have a reason to send multicast, there is no need.

Upvotes: 1

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