In article <d2de8ada-ca2d-4e57-b50c-ccac8d27d...@3am-software.com>, Matt Thomas <m...@3am-software.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 23, 2015, at 8:40 PM, Brett Lymn <bl...@internode.on.net> wrote: >> >> inet6 fe80::76d0:2bff:fe2b:89bc%wm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > >That is a link local address is only good for communicating with other >machines accesible from that interface. > >If you had ârealâ IPv6 youâd see something other than fe80::
One of my ISProviders is TWC. If you don't use DHCPv6, what you end up is the link-local address for each interface (which you get anyway), and a default route to the link-local address of the TWC router (through RA's), which is not useful if you don't have a real IPv6 address on any of your interfaces. This made things work very slowly, because everything tried IPv6 first because of the default route (until it timed-out). On the bright side everything works if you run dhcpcd, and you get a delegated /64 too for your internal network. christos
