On Thursday, 11 March 2021 15:22:11 GMT Andy Smith via GLLUG wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 03:14:42PM +0000, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: > > I am using Debian 10 Buster on various computers including RaspberryPi and > > find that I can manually add addresses to a running computer, but if I > > attempt to configure multiple addresses only the last is accepted, and > > all but one is lost after a reboot. > > I don't see a concrete question in your email, but for what it's > worth I add multiple IPv6 addresses on Debian by using pre-up hooks > in the /etc/network/interfaces file, e.g.: > > iface eth0 inet6 static > address 2001:ba8:1f1:f019::2 > netmask 64 > gateway fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff > pre-up ip -6 addr add 2001:ba8:1f1:f019::3/64 dev $IFACE preferred_lft 0 > pre-up ip -6 addr add 2001:ba8:1f1:f019::4/64 dev $IFACE preferred_lft 0 > > The "preferred_lft 0" bit is so that the addresses are present and > usable for daemons to bind to, but will never be used as a source > address for outgoing traffic. Without that, the last added address > will be used as the source address. > > Cheers, > Andy Thanks for the reply, I will try that.
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