Subj : I hope a quick quesiton. :)
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Markus Reschke
Date : Thu Sep 22 2016 21:10:28

Hello Shawn!

Sep 22 12:25 2016, Shawn Highfield wrote to All:

 SH> So my question is a stupid one.

 SH> ifconfig on my pi shows:
 SH> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:e1:86:71
 SH> inet addr:192.168.0.19  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
 SH> inet6 addr: fe80::ae7b:64a:a9b8:bd7d/64 Scope:Link
 SH> inet6 addr: 2607:f2c0:93fa:d200:82dc:1199:779e:410e/64 Scope:Global
 SH> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
 SH> RX packets:52811 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
 SH> TX packets:32709 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 SH> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
 SH> RX bytes:31998086 (30.5 MiB)  TX bytes:14037299 (13.3 MiB)

 SH> In the router which of the above inet6 addr's is the one I forward to 
 SH> the pi for allowing outside connections?

The global IPv6 address 2607:f2c0:93fa:d200:82dc:1199:779e:410e. In most cases you have to add a firewall rule on your router to allow traffic to pass from the outside to the RasPi. BTW, an "ip addr show" is more informative and also shows flags and timers for IPv6 addresses.

Regards,
Markus

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