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Can clients learn their time zone on a network configured using RA?
Stateless address autoconfiguration doesn't provide any way to transmit time zone information, but DHCPv6 does. The DHCPv4 options 100 and 101 correspond to the DHCPv6 options 41 and 42 respectively. ...
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Multiple IPv6 routers on the same network
IPv4
The reason IPv4 behaves the way you have observed is that it wasn't originally intended to support more than one IP address on an interface. Hence the DHCP client will just wait for the first ...
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How to remove autoconfigured IPv6 Addresses in Windows 7/2008?
Powershell with Administrator Rights
Show ip addres: netsh interface ipv6 show address
Delete ip/use Interface name: netsh interface ipv6 delete address Ethernet0 200x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x
netsh interface ...
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How to remove autoconfigured IPv6 Addresses in Windows 7/2008?
Once you change the prefix your router is advertising, addresses in the old subnet will be deprecated and eventually removed without any intervention on your part. The address will be deprecated for ...
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How to remove autoconfigured IPv6 Addresses in Windows 7/2008?
You'll need to remove all cached/autoconfigured IPv6 settings then let them repropagate. The command on Windows is
netsh int ipv6 reset
You'll need to restart for the changes to take effect.
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Setting up stateful DHCPv6 on Linux
In short: I think the DHCP server listens on the wrong interface.
Long answer:
Let's assume you get the prefix 2001:DB8:1234::/48 from your ISP.
In addition we assume your router has two network ...
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Advertise self as ipv6 dns server, with ra-pd / radvd
Not yet supported, corresponding Feature Request here: https://github.com/radvd-project/radvd/issues/126
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Use the locally published RA route for routing
You would get such a route automatically by configuring an interface with an IP address and prefix in that network, which suggests to me that this has not been done. If your network interface or ...
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DHCPCD does not delegate an assigned IPv6 prefix
Old thread, but this is one of the few hits Google spits out in 2022 for configuring IPv6 PD with isc-dhcp-client, so for what it's worth:
there is a known limitation in earlier versions of isc-dhcp-...
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Is there any way to programmatically add prefixes to radvd without writing to radvd.conf and restarting it?
You can send radvd a HUP signal and it reloads the config.
systemctl reload radvd.service
or
service radvd reload
or
killall -HUP radvd
depending on the type (age) of system you are running on.
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Why use DHCPv6 over Stateless Address Autoconfiguration?
SLAAC was a good attempt to autoconfig addresses and remove the centralization that a DHCP server obliges. In a IPv4 network with all devices' addresses handled by DHCP server, if it fails, soon ...
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