On 11/08/2019 20.19, James Knott wrote:
On 2019-08-11 02:10 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
To just plug an IPv6 device into the network (not necessarily mine) and it will be autoconfigured, it will get an address. Ok, what address will it get? How do I know that address? How do I connect to that new device without knowing its new IPv6 address?
How do you know your IPv4 address when DHCP is used? Maybe you open a command prompt and type ip addr sh? You can even get fancy and use ip -6 addr sh, if you only want to see IPv6 addresses.
As I said, I look into the documentation and they say the device comes factory set to 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Some devices, like the chromecast, do the network configuration over bluetooth instead, off-band. New HP printers are configured on Windows probably with some specific broadcast and the printer responds to it. Tricks.
I also mentioned, in another note, about the ip neighbor show command. It shows the addresses of other devices.
News to me. Interesting. It does not say which is the new device. I can guess, though.
How do you do that in IPv4? Why is IPv6 so special that you can't use the same or similar methods as IPv4? What does this have to do with your insistence on using link local addresses?
As I said, IPv4 comes with a factory configuration of a fixed IP address. On ipv6, that is the link-local address.
And about taking an issue with Firefox, you did not read the link I posted. Hundreds of people took and issue with them, there is bugzilla and I have nothing to with it.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)