Re: IPv6 PD - assign multiple static addresses
Roy Marples
Sat Apr 01 12:07:57 2017
On 31/03/17 15:41, Roy Marples wrote:
> * What I find interesting is that they equally apply to IPv4 addresses
> (bar the NAT reason, but that's for the protocol as a whole, not the
> address itself which is this debate).
> You *can* have many public IPv4 addresses on one interface - you could
> even control them all via DHCP (with dhcpcd of course).
> But no-one has ever asked for many static IPv4 addresses.
> I wonder if this is partly bound to you get one IPv4 address from
> upstream but with IPv6 you generally get a /64 block (of course you
> could get more or less, but you get the idea).
>
> I would recommend filing a ticket for the dhcpcd project here:
> https://dev.marples.name
>
> So I can stick it in my to work on queue.
> We might also want to discuss how it looks in the config file - many
> static ip6_address=... lines, some kind of array marking, etc and if
> they should be exported to hook scripts.
Thanks to Maarten for creating this task, so it's not lost:
https://dev.marples.name/T112
Roy
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