RFR [12] 8210493: Bind to node- or linklocal ipv6 multicast address fails

Wed Nov 7 16:23:56 UTC 2018

> On 7 Nov 2018, at 15:22, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Does the comment at L806 need to be updated? Also the change makes me wondering about the 2.4 kernel support, maybe it is time to think about dropping some of the older code path.

Alan, 

Is that better?

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~prappo/8210493/webrev.01/

A note to reviewers 
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It looks like the initial terminology "node-local" for multicast IPv6 addresses
introduced in [1] more than 20 years ago has since changed to "interface-local"
[2]:

   -  Multicast scope changes:
         o  Changed name of scope value 1 from "node-local" to
            "interface-local"
         o  Defined scope value 4 as "admin-local"

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1884#page-14
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3513#page-24