Scoped IPv6 address IPv6 has address scopes, but site-local have vanished link-local, or global With link-local, need to identify "which scope we are using" to disambiguate sin6_scope_id Do not try to fill sin6_scope_id by yourself - it is implementation-dependent getpeername, getsockname, getaddrinfo Textual representation: fe80::1%de0 But users should really use DNS names! "ping6 -w", LLMNR (multicast DNS)