On 04/04/2019 23.18, James Knott wrote:
On 04/04/2019 05:08 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It is possible to change it. For example, with my pfSense router, the gateway address is fe80::1:1. However, MAC addresses are commonly used to form the link local address. Why use a link-local address on the router or anywhere, if Firefox refuses to work with them? They are problematic.
You'll have to ask the Firefox people about that. It used to work.
There is a bugzilla on firefox site already. Eight years old. They intentionally removed the functionality, because the syntax "http:///[FE80::21E:BFF:FE08:4CCB%eth0]" has a security problem when parsing the "%" symbol if I recall correctly. Eight years later they still have not settled on an alternative. If you want to reach the configuration page of a device on IPv6, which means using its link-local address, you have to use an old version of Firefox, which some people keep for that purpose alone (version 6, I think).
Normally, you'd have a global or local address, which would work with Firefox. Does your printer not get that type of address?
Not manually, as I do with the IPv4 address. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)