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On 2019-11-28 03:07, Ralph Seichter wrote: |
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> Personally, I don't think static IPv6 addresses are very useful, |
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> because machines in a local IPv6 network can easily locate each other |
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> using link-local addressing, without the need to configure this in any |
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> way. In the example above, the link-local address fe80::1 means "the |
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> default IPv6 gateway out of here". |
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But what about connecting to the outside world? For that, the |
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link-local address doesn't work. If I'm relying on the router to |
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rewrite the source address for such connections, I'm already doing the |
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equivalent of NAT, and IPv6 was supposed to do away with those :-P |
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> IPv6 has more convenient mechanisms, like unique local addresses (ULA), |
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> that can be configured but don't need to be. If your router is smart |
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> enough, no configuration is required on the end nodes; be it Linux, |
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> macOS, Windows, or various smartphones. |
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> One of the many available sources of information is hosted by The Linux |
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> Documentation Project[1]. |
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I knew about LDP, but I thought I needed some gentoo specifics, such as |
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the conf.d/net syntax. You answered that and thanks. Still, I feel I'm |
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floating in an exoplanetary orbit. No configuration needed for this ULA |
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thing? How does it happen, then - is it implemented entirely in the kernel? |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists |
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which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. |
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