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Bottomley: Creating a home IPv6 network

([Kernel] Sep 18, 2020 14:48 UTC (Fri) (corbet))


James Bottomley has put together [1]a detailed recounting of what it took to get IPv6 fully working on his network. " One of the things you’d think from the above is that IPv6 always auto configures and, while it is true that if you simply plug your laptop into the ethernet port of a cable modem it will just automatically configure, most people have a more complex home setup involving a router, which needs some special coaxing before it will work. That means you need to obtain additional features from your ISP using special DHCPv6 requests. "



[1] https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/creating-a-home-ipv6-network/

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