James Knott wrote:
On 2019-08-10 08:48 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
gumb wrote:
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? Most likely, yes. It might never change, but it'll still be a dynamic address :-)
Automatically obtaining the external address shouldn't be difficult, but it depends on what you have running on that machine.
IPv6 uses something called "DUID"
Oh yeah, I know. A pain in the behind that is :-) I wish I could use plain MAC's for the DHCP config file.
which is used to ensure you get the same prefix.
afaik, there is no guarantee, although a provider's ipv6 range is so huge that reuse will likely never happen. RIPE hands out /28 by default I think and the minimum is a /32. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org