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Re: IPv6 SLAAC and RFC 7217



Thanks Andy for the tip about the stable_secret sysctl, I will try
this out soon and see how it behaves.

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:29:23PM +0100, John Naggets wrote:
>> I was wondering if there is a "standard" way in Debian 9 through the
>> /etc/network/interfaces file to enable/force using a stable private
>> IPv6 address using SLAAC as specified in RFC 7217?
>
> I have never tried it but <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/255955>
> seems to suggest that you would set the stable_secret sysctl and
> then it would work automatically after that.
>
> You could set the sysctl from /etc/network/interfaces or from
> /etc/sysctl.d/ or just by some other script.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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