I don't know much about ssh, networking and so on, just enough to have got ssh working on ipv4 between various machines both on my LAN and remotely. Now I'm wanting to try and convert everything to ipv6, since my home ISP has switched to ipv6 by default and in theory it should be simpler overall, but info when googling is limited and outdated. I've had some success already but need more info. 1) I don't fully understand how ipv6 addresses get dished out. I can see, having now set up connections on three machines on my LAN, that one address seems to be the permanent one, chosen automatically for connections, although with one PC it initially chose a different address and settled on that other one later. After looking at info in <ip a> on two machines, the address that I suppose to be the 'main' or permanent one has different things appended. On my old laptop the main one has a /128 suffix followed by 'scope global dynamic'. On my new laptop it has a /64 suffix followed by 'scope global mngtmpaddr noprefixroute dynamic'. Does 'mngtmpaddr' imply it's only temporary? 2) The machine I administer remotely in another country is connected to an ISP that provides a dynamic IP, which has caused me headaches trying to find a method of automatically obtaining the new address each time it changes. If I change over to an ipv6 connection, will they still issue a dynamic address? (I don't know if the dynamic IP is a means to conserving limited ipv4 addresses or if it serves other purposes). 3) I can ssh within my LAN using the link-local address in the console, though I find it much faster and preferable to use a graphical interface and can't find how to make Dolphin accept this address in the 'Network Folder Wizard' dialog. It must need the interface specifying but no matter how I write out the string (%eth0, square brackets, quotes, backslash escapes, etc.) it doesn't accept it. 4) If I ssh to another machine on the LAN but using the afore-mentioned 'global' main address, does this go outside of my LAN, i.e. if I'm only using PAM authentication is there a risk of this being intercepted? Cheers, gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org