On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 03:07:43AM +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote > Personally, I don't think static IPv6 addresses are very useful, > because machines in a local IPv6 network can easily locate each other > using link-local addressing, without the need to configure this in > any way. In the example above, the link-local address fe80::1 means > "the default IPv6 gateway out of here".
I've got 4 PCs of various ages at home, and a couple of laptops. By using static RFC1918 IPV4 addresses and /etc/hosts entries, I can refer to the PCs by short easy-to-remember names. My router/modem serves out DHCP addresses starting at the bottom of a range, so even the laptop is effectively on a static IP. This allows me to easily ssh+scp between machines. How would this be accomplished under IPV6? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
