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by how_gauche
2091 days ago
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You're supposed to use DHCPv6 or Neighbor Discovery -- like everything else in IPv6-land, it's significantly more complicated than it is over IPv4. I don't run the whole network IPv6 -- for hosts I care about having an IPv6 egress for, I use a Wireguard tunnel in IPv6 private address space to a bastion host. If I want to expose a port, I forward it from the other side. It's a sad state of affairs :-( |
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Just setting up SLAAC is very straightforward, probably (ignoring any unfamiliarity issues) more simple than DHCP?
Pulling addresses from your service provider via prefix delegation can be a bit funny, and could do with being a lot more polished. Instructions/community support in particular can be problematic as ISPs tend to use different prefix lengths, rather than just standardising on /56. And also less relevant if you have a static allocation, which is potentially more likely with IPv6 than IPv4.
And DNS becomes more important, as does firewalling, no more relying on the somewhat dubious NAT safety net.