IPv6 address configuration
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Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:03:33 UTC
I'm about to upgrade my network connection and my ISP tells me I'm going to have to have new static addresses because I'm moving from a VDSL to fibre infrastructure. This isn't too much of a problem on IPv4 because NAT means it's just a single change at the router (+ DNS changes of course), but is a nuisance on IPv6 because I'm going to have to renumber every machine (and most of them have multiple addresses because I use an IPv6 address per service as well as one for the machine). What would make my life easier is if ifconfig had a way to set IPv6 addresses where I only specified the lower 64 bits and it got the /64 prefix from router solicitation, similar to the way SLACC addresses are formed but not using the hardware address. Is this possible because I've not found a way to do it? [Yes, I know about NPTv6 and will use it as a last resort, but I prefer internal and external addresses to be the same so I don't have to do split horizon DNS for IPv6.] -- All network cabling aspires to the condition of macramé.