* Ian Zimmerman: > What am I missing?
I can't really tell, based on what you posted. Is there an IPv6 Router Advertisment service running, either on your router or another machine in your local network? Here is some data from the Gentoo machine I am currently working on. It is hosted in a data center and uses a /64 subnet. I obfuscated the IP addresses, but I'm sure you get the gist: # cat /etc/conf.d/net dns_domain_lo="example.com" modules="iproute2" config_enp0s31f6="99.88.77.50/26 2a01:11:22:33::44/64" routes_enp0s31f6="default via 99.88.77.1 default via fe80::1" # route -6n Kernel IPv6 routing table Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If ::1/128 :: Un 0 11 0 lo 2a01:11:22:33::44/128 :: Un 0 10 0 enp0s31f6 2a01:11:22:33::/64 :: U 256 2 0 enp0s31f6 fe80::4e52:62ff:fe0a:9d75/128 :: Un 0 3 0 enp0s31f6 fe80::/64 :: U 256 3 0 enp0s31f6 ff00::/8 :: U 256 2 0 enp0s31f6 ::/0 fe80::1 UG 3 9 0 enp0s31f6 # ping6 fe80::1 PING fe80::1(fe80::1) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from fe80::1%enp0s31f6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.01 ms 64 bytes from fe80::1%enp0s31f6: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=2.38 ms 64 bytes from fe80::1%enp0s31f6: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.763 ms In my home network, my FRITZ!Box router assigns both a ULA and a global scope address to each client, without any manual configuration on the clients. The optional ULA assignment means that, should my uplink connection die, the local clients can still talk to each other. -Ralph
