On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:14:22 -04 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 14:09:24 -0400 > > Eike Lantzsch <zp6...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi to all! > > > > I'm trying to teach myself to work with IPv6. > > > > On a Stretch client I'd like to have manually set static IPv6 addresses. > > But what I get are SLAAC addresses with $prefix + MAC-derived according to > > the IEEE-Tutorial EUI-64 . > > I can cope with a SLAAC address AND an additional manual static address on > > the same interface - no problem - but what is going on here? Why is the > > manual address in the file "/etc/network/interfaces" ignored? > > What is it that I don't understand? > > What about good old "ifdown enp3s0; ifup -v enp3s0"? > > It should shed some light on what's happening. > A quick test in my current environment shows that stretch's ifupdown is > working as expected, i.e. 'inet6 static' stanza is honored and SLAAC > advertisements are ignored. > > Reco
Thanks to Ulf Vollmer, Christian Seiler and Reco. I'm going to try your recommendations but I have to wait until weekend 'cause I'll be busy with other stuff in the next days. Will come back with results later. Cheers Eike