* Walter Dnes: > Assume the following [...]
Pretty close. If you *really* want to set things up manually, I suggest using ULA as per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193 . I just randomly picked [1] as a generator service, entered a fictuous MAC address (you should use one of your own), and clicked "Go". The outcome was: Your Private IPv6 network is: fdb3:fa69:3947::/48 giving you access to the to the following /64s: fdb3:fa69:3947:0::/64 through fdb3:fa69:3947:ffff::/64 The private /48 network contains 2^16 /64 subnets, so there is enough to go round for LAN, DMZ, guest network, etc. As an example, let's pick fdb3:fa69:3947:0::/64 as our local network. > machine1 has a script in /etc/local.d/ that executes... > ipv6 address fe80::1 link-local I prefer this alternative: # /etc/conf.d/net for machine #5 config_eth0="192.168.123.5/24 fdb3:fa69:3947::5/64" # The previous line is the shortened representation of # fdb3:fa69:3947:0:0:0:0:5/64 You can now indeed use a shared hosts file as before: # /etc/hosts 192.168.123.5 machine5-ipv4 fdb3:fa69:3947::5 machine5 I cannot test this right now, but if I did not miss any typos, this should get you going. -Ralph
