Subj : IPv6
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Ray Quinn
Date : Sun Aug 21 2016 21:46:00

-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Ray Quinn <=-

 -=> Ray Quinn wrote to Bj”rn Felten <=-

 RQ> I am running Debian Linux (Jessie). When I type ifconfig, I get
 RQ> fe80::e23f:49ff:fead:fa9/64 as the IPv6 address. I am not in the same
 RQ> town as that computer and cannot further test the IP address until I
 RQ> can get back home.

 TL> That's a link local address, not valid outside your LAN.  Are there
 TL> any other IPv6 addresses?

Perhaps you can tell me what I am seeing here. Here is the entire output of
ifconfig:

root@bbs:~# ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e0:3f:49:ad:0f:a9
          inet addr:104.49.12.129  Bcast:104.49.12.135  Mask:255.255.255.248
          inet6 addr: 2602:306:bd31:aa50:e23f:49ff:fead:fa9/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::e23f:49ff:fead:fa9/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:634840 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:160170 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:113176920 (107.9 MiB)  TX bytes:18281889 (17.4 MiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:9915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:667774 (652.1 KiB)  TX bytes:667774 (652.1 KiB)




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