On 17/06/19 9:59 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:05:11AM +0100, mick crane wrote: >> Without knowing anything about it I'm wondering if I should request an >> IPv6 range from my ISP to use locally. > > You don't need a global IPv6 address allocation in order to have local > IPv6 addresses. Much like 127.0.0.0/8 (etc.) for IPv4 there are reserved > ranges. 127.0.0.0/8 is for loopback addresses; ::1 is the IPv6 equivalent. Reserved ranges for local use are the RFC1918 ranges (192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12 and 10.0.0.0/8), and more closely replaced by ULAs (fd00::/8) in IPv6. Richard
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