Auto-configure IPv6 for your Network | Linux Today

Auto-configure IPv6 for your Network

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 26, 2011

[ Thanks to Andrew Weber for this link. ]

“One major feature of IPv6 is its ability to auto-configure the
host portion of the IP address using the MAC address from the
Network Card. We may have seen this already with the local-link
address, however, in this tutorial will look at configuring the
RAdvD on openSUSE 11 to advertise the Network Prefix and default
gateway so we can work with global addresses without any
configuration on the hosts. This will differ from DHCP as we do not
need to configure the RAdvD with the host addresses. These will
come from the hosts own MAC address helping us reach Zero
configuration networking. Or at least very little
configuration.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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