Hi Peter
Peter Watson wrote:
The NIC in my MDK 10 box has an IP address of 10.0.0.1 which I set myself in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
However ifconfig shows that eth0 also has an inet6 address of fe80::205:5dff:fe74:e3d3/64. lo also has an inet6 address of ::1/128.
None of the other boxes on my lan, Win 98, XP-Pro and Peanut Linux have an inet6 address. The question is where did these inet6 addresses come from in Mandrake.
The addresses are automatically generated by IPv6 enabled machines/NICs.
For more information, check out the IPv6 HOWTO to further understand how IPv6 works.
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