Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?
On 8/2/22, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, Lee wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I've got it in /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0
>
> but whereever you've put the network configuration
> /etc/network/interfaces perhaps?
*sigh* Back when I first set up this machine I couldn't figure out
how to get the /etc/network/xxx config to work. I ended up using the
Advanced Network Configuration GUI that set up /etc/NetworkManager
files.
Hopefully you've given me enough of a hint that I can figure out the
rest for myself
Thanks
Lee
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