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
