Thanks for the suggestion. That does work, although it's a bit messy to have to advertise a prefix you don't want the clients to use.
Cheers, Christopher Martin On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:41 AM Simon Kelley <si...@thekelleys.org.uk> wrote: > > Can you also add a dhcp-range for the ULA range, which deprecates it? > > Cheers, > > Simon. > > > On 27/10/2018 18:17, Christopher Martin wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Is it possible to prevent Dnsmasq from advertising a specific prefix via > > router advertisements? > > > > Here's my situation. My ISP provides a dynamic IPv6 prefix which, using > > wide-dhcpv6, ends up assigned to interface bond0. Dnsmasq then > > advertises the prefix on bond0 out to the LAN. The various hosts on the > > LAN use it, together with IPv6 privacy extensions, to generate global > > IPv6 addresses. So far so good. > > > > For reference, my config is as follows: > > > > dhcp-range=::,constructor:bond0,ra-only,infinite > > > > Here's the problem. I also assign a ULA to bond0 (fd00:etc.). Dnsmasq > > also advertises this prefix to the LAN, but I don't want it to, because > > then the other hosts on the LAN end up generating addresses based on it, > > including via IPv6 privacy extensions. Whereas what I want is to > > manually assign each host its own specific, unchanging and easily > > remembered ULA, which should also be the source IP used when connecting > > to various services around the LAN. Too many ULAs cause problems. > > > > Is there a way to instruct Dnsmasq to _not_ advertise the ULA prefix, > > but to continue advertising the global prefix from my ISP? Perhaps this > > option already exists and I've simply missed it - apologies if that's > > the case. > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Christopher Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
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