Carlos E. R. wrote:
As for finding addresses in mails, they are typically random. By default in openSUSE. See "IPv6 privacy extensions".
But if you want to make use of things like VoIP you would need a fixed address, non private, because you do want to do things needing being accessible.
No, you don't need a fixed address for a VoIP client. With ISDN being phased out by the end of next year, Swisscom will be switching everyone to VoIP. None of those will need a fixed IP, v4 or v6. Deutsche Telekom will be doing the same by the end of 2018.
Well, I have that. Silently.
When I switched to fibre, I was switched to VoIp, but I wasn't told. I simply get a "thing" with a phone connector, to which is connected the house phone wiring, unchanged.
Yes, I expect that will be the case for most people. Whether the telco uses copper, fibre or carrier pigeons should be transparent to the consumer. An ISDN customer has an NTBA ("terminator box") installed, typically a grey box on the wall somewhere. It interfaces the telephone wires with the S0 bus. I expect Swisscom and Deutsche Telecom will simply replace that with another one, essentially an ADSL modem which interfaces the telephones wires with Ethernet.
Only if you want to run a server will you need fixed addresses, just like now.
You need an intermediary where you register on each IP change so that others can phone you.
Yes, that's called a "VoIP provider". They also provide the interconnect to the POTS etc.
You get both type of addresses for a computer? How know applications which one to use?
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/use_tempaddr
0 = privacy extensions disabled. 1 = privacy extensions enabled, but not preferred. 2 = privacy extensions enabled, preferred.
It is zero here. I see...
The default on openSUSE is 2, a sound choice for a client. I wonder how you got a 0.
A network interface will have
a) link local address - fe80:<mac-addr based> b) a temporary address (assuming tempaddr!=0) = 2001:db8::random c) an address handed out by dhcp = your:pref::pooladdr d) a fixed address based on mac-addr = your:pref::macaddr-based.
I have a mac based address (don't know if 'a' or 'd'... correction, I know, it is 'a') and a fixed address I created, local if I remember correctly:
inet6 addr: fe80::221:85ff:fe16:2d0b/64 Scope:Link inet6 addr: fc00::14/64 Scope:Global
Type 'b', it is always "2001:db8..."?
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