Makes sense, the gateway is never a target of the ip packet, so it’s really only used to find the MAC address of the gateway.

Literally seen this in the real world too.

Wait is there an existing unicode to ipv6 method. I assume it would just be the bit values of the emoji in utf8?

fe80::“hello 🐔” aka fe80::6865:6c6c:6f20:f09f:9094

I approve of the idea of cursed ipv6 notation.

Just wanted to point out that this search is for over a decade of questions. It might be a problem, but over 10 years you are likely to get a sizeable result for a lot of errors.