Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 6 December 2019 17:42:44 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote:

> ULA support, or rather the ability to assign additional static IPv6
> addresses to an interface, depends on the router's firmware. If you can
> make it work, https://cd34.com/rfc4193/ can help you generate a ULA
> prefix.

I can't apply a ULA to my router, but it's given me a /128 address which I can 
use in DNS.
 
> ULA allows for fixed addresses, while SLAAC-based addresses expire and
> can contain random components, and that's why static name-to-address
> mappings generally use ULA.

I haven't looked into SLAAC yet, but meanwhile I've sorted out addresses for 
my LAN hosts using the delegation prefix and an arbitrary host number 1 to 6.

Ping6 and nslookup both work, both locally and to remote hosts.

Thanks again for your help! Now for shorewall6   :)

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Regards,
Peter.