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