Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?
On 8/2/22, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Lee wrote:
>
>> Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! I'd like for
>> my Debian server to have a static IPv6 address.. same as I have for
>> IPv4. But how to do that?
>>
>> I have a Netgate firewall that does a dhcp6 request for a /56 from
>> Verizon, then the firewall delegates a /64 to each internal subnet.
>>
>> I haven't been able to figure out how to assign a static address when
>> the network part might [will] change.. so I've got everything using
>> managed addresses (ie. dhcp6). So effectively the server has a static
>> address, but still.. I'd rather not depend on DHCPv6
>>
>> Thoughts on how2?
>>
> Not sure I exactly understand what you want but you can specify the
> local part of an SLAAC ipv6 address thus:
>
> iface eth0 inet6 auto
> pre-up echo 64
>>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen
> pre-up ip token set ::0123:4567:a9ab:cdef/64 dev eth0
Yes!! That looks like what I want.
Where does it go if I want to always done at boot time?
Thanks
Lee
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