### How to set a static IPv6 address on my Linux server? ### | |
The IP configuration of a host is a rather repetitive and - let's be honest - b… | |
However, there are cases when this mechanism might be dangerous. One of such ca… | |
A good practice is to set the IPv6 address of your server statically. Setting t… | |
iface eth0 inet6 static | |
pre-up modprobe ipv6 | |
address 2001:470:d37b:1::2 | |
gateway 2001:470:d37b:1::1 | |
netmask 64 | |
Of course, you need to modify addresses according to your network. Note that th… | |
Usually, you will also want to prevent your network interface to get an autocon… | |
In theory, it should be possible to disable IPv6 autoconfiguration by disabling… | |
net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf=0 | |
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra=0 | |
Unfortunately, this hasn't worked on my Debian 5.0.6 server, so I just disabled… | |