tony wrote:
> This thread has now drifted from my asking whether there was any way of
> interrogating the hardware to obtain the current IP6 address of host -
> apparently not
The hardware doesn't know IP addresses. The kernel knows those.
$ ip -6 a show eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 state UP
qlen 1000
inet6 2001:470:1e07:ff7:d63d:7eff:fe93:e318/64 scope global
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::d63d:7eff:fe93:e318/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
$ ip -6 r show | grep eth0
2001:470:1e07:ff7::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref
medium
fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
Tra-la.
Didn't you get this answer before?
-dsr-