On 20/02/2019 13:24, Dan Ritter wrote: > tony wrote: >> This thread has now drifted from my asking whether there was any way of >> interrogating the hardware to obtain the current IP6 address of host - >> apparently not > > The hardware doesn't know IP addresses. The kernel knows those. > > $ ip -6 a show eth0 > 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 state UP > qlen 1000 > inet6 2001:470:1e07:ff7:d63d:7eff:fe93:e318/64 scope global > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > inet6 fe80::d63d:7eff:fe93:e318/64 scope link > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > $ ip -6 r show | grep eth0 > 2001:470:1e07:ff7::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref > medium > fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium > > Tra-la. > > Didn't you get this answer before? > > -dsr- >
Many times.