On 2019-11-28 03:07, 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".
But what about connecting to the outside world? For that, the link-local address doesn't work. If I'm relying on the router to rewrite the source address for such connections, I'm already doing the equivalent of NAT, and IPv6 was supposed to do away with those :-P > IPv6 has more convenient mechanisms, like unique local addresses (ULA), > that can be configured but don't need to be. If your router is smart > enough, no configuration is required on the end nodes; be it Linux, > macOS, Windows, or various smartphones. > One of the many available sources of information is hosted by The Linux > Documentation Project[1]. I knew about LDP, but I thought I needed some gentoo specifics, such as the conf.d/net syntax. You answered that and thanks. Still, I feel I'm floating in an exoplanetary orbit. No configuration needed for this ULA thing? How does it happen, then - is it implemented entirely in the kernel? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
