On Mon 22 Jan 2018 at 17:21:23 (-0000), Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <20180119151835.GA8374@alum>, > David Wright<deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > I have one valuable use for IPv6 which is point-to-point connections. > > I plug a CAT5 cable into the two ends and use predefined functions > > to bulk-transfer files with scp. Why? > > 1) I don't have to touch the IPv4 configuration, > > 2) We can still watch TV; ie the router doesn't get swamped. > > You should be able to do that with IPv4 too. If DHCP address allocation > fails,
Elaborate on this please. What do you mean by "fails". What am I meant to want to fail? > then both devices should pick up a link-local IPv4 address (in the > 169.254.x.x block). You can use this address to do whatever you need to do. Cheers, David.
