On Sun 14 Aug 2022 at 05:35:17 (+0000), Marco wrote: > Am 13. Aug 2022, um 23:42:17 Uhr schrieb David Wright: > > > AFAICT the rest of your post is concerned with global IPv6 addresses > > rather than local (ULA) ones, which is why the prefix for the home > > LAN has to be given to you rather than generated/assigned by yourself. > > It is possible to use an additional ULA at home to address computers. > This ULA can be taken to a new provider because it is only valid inside > your network - not on the internet.
Sure, and if Curt had quoted two paragraphs about ULAs instead, I would have pointed out that the user-generated pseudorandom global ID within them means that they too are unlike local IPv4 addresses, ie not fundamentally identical. A consequence of IPv6 ULAs having a global ID is that it should be straightforward to merge a number of local sites with independently assigned addresses, without causing any collisions. Perhaps that clarifies what I took from Curt's use of the term "fundamentally identical" with respect to IPv4 local addresses. > Then the GUA prefix is being used to connect to other computers > on the internet outside your network. Your computer can have multiple > IPv6 addresses, it already has at least 2 (link-local and GUA). Cheers, David.
