On 04/04/2019 17.35, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/04/2019 03.18, James Knott wrote:
On 04/03/2019 06:13 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ok, but the numbers are tied to the hardware. To the MAC. It is not an address you define. And does not work on firefox, for instance.
It is possible to change it. For example, with my pfSense router, the gateway address is fe80::1:1. However, MAC addresses are commonly used to form the link local address.
Why use a link-local address on the router or anywhere, if Firefox refuses to work with them? They are problematic.
Not at all. They are _not_ meant to be used by humans. Every IPv6 device needs a link local address.
My printer uses one, I can not assign another. It is not reachable over IPv6 because of that. A decade old bug.
Your printer needs the link-local address. You probably just need an IPv6 router or dhcpv6 on your network.
The printer IPv6 is not configurable whatsoever. Only a link-local address. Firefox refuses to use that address. The syntax was: http:///[FE80::21E:BFF:FE08:4CCB%eth0] but then firefox people intentionally removed that syntax: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1111992> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999> Apparently IoT devices are not reachable because of this. We talked about this a year ago. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)