diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index e1eac73..1c4421b 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ struct config_item config_tab[] = {
 	PORT_ITEM_INT("transportSpecific", 0, 0, 0x0F),
 	GLOB_ITEM_INT("tx_timestamp_timeout", 1, 1, INT_MAX),
 	PORT_ITEM_INT("udp_ttl", 1, 1, 255),
+	PORT_ITEM_INT("udp6_scope", 0x0E, 0x00, 0x0F),
 	GLOB_ITEM_INT("use_syslog", 1, 0, 1),
 	GLOB_ITEM_INT("verbose", 0, 0, 1),
 };
@@ -464,12 +465,6 @@ static enum parser_result parse_global_setting(const char *option,
 		for (i = 0; i < MAC_LEN; i++)
 			cfg->p2p_dst_mac[i] = mac[i];
 
-	} else if (!strcmp(option, "udp6_scope")) {
-		r = get_ranged_uint(value, &uval, 0x00, 0x0F);
-		if (r != PARSED_OK)
-			return r;
-		*cfg->udp6_scope = uval;
-
 	} else if (!strcmp(option, "uds_address")) {
 		if (strlen(value) > MAX_IFNAME_SIZE)
 			return OUT_OF_RANGE;
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 88120e4..0ccb3ea 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ struct config {
 
 	unsigned char *ptp_dst_mac;
 	unsigned char *p2p_dst_mac;
-	unsigned char *udp6_scope;
 	char *uds_address;
 };
 
diff --git a/ptp4l.c b/ptp4l.c
index 0ddf6c1..08f7512 100644
--- a/ptp4l.c
+++ b/ptp4l.c
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ static struct config cfg_settings = {
 
 	.ptp_dst_mac = ptp_dst_mac,
 	.p2p_dst_mac = p2p_dst_mac,
-	.udp6_scope = &udp6_scope,
 	.uds_address = uds_path,
 
 	.cfg_ignore = 0,
diff --git a/udp6.c b/udp6.c
index f098b8c..fdf5799 100644
--- a/udp6.c
+++ b/udp6.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 #include "address.h"
+#include "config.h"
 #include "contain.h"
 #include "print.h"
 #include "sk.h"
@@ -42,8 +43,6 @@
 #define PTP_PRIMARY_MCAST_IP6ADDR "FF0E:0:0:0:0:0:0:181"
 #define PTP_PDELAY_MCAST_IP6ADDR  "FF02:0:0:0:0:0:0:6B"
 
-unsigned char udp6_scope = 0x0E;
-
 struct udp6 {
 	struct transport t;
 	int index;
@@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ static int udp6_open(struct transport *t, const char *name, struct fdarray *fda,
 	if (1 != inet_pton(AF_INET6, PTP_PRIMARY_MCAST_IP6ADDR, &mc6_addr[MC_PRIMARY]))
 		return -1;
 
-	mc6_addr[MC_PRIMARY].s6_addr[1] = udp6_scope;
+	mc6_addr[MC_PRIMARY].s6_addr[1] = config_get_int(t->cfg, name, "udp6_scope");
 
 	if (1 != inet_pton(AF_INET6, PTP_PDELAY_MCAST_IP6ADDR, &mc6_addr[MC_PDELAY]))
 		return -1;
diff --git a/udp6.h b/udp6.h
index e451262..8613da5 100644
--- a/udp6.h
+++ b/udp6.h
@@ -23,12 +23,6 @@
 #include "fd.h"
 #include "transport.h"
 
-/**
- * The desired scope for the multicast messages. This will be used as
- * the second byte of the primary IPv6 address. See RFC 4291.
- */
-extern unsigned char udp6_scope;
-
 /**
  * Allocate an instance of a UDP/IPv6 transport.
  * @return Pointer to a new transport instance on success, NULL otherwise.