On 7/31/20 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Nit: DHCPv6 can be (and usually is) dynamic, but it doesn't have to
be. It's entirely possible to have a static IP address that your OS
(or firewall/router) acquires via DHCPv6 (or v4). [I set up stuff
like that all the time.]
Counter Nit: That's still acquiring an address via /Dynamic/ Host
Configuration Protocol (v6). It /is/ a /dynamic/ process.
Static IP address has some very specific meaning when it comes to
configuring TCP/IP stacks. Specifically that you enter the address to
be used, and it doesn't change until someone changes it in the
configuration.
Either an IP address is statically entered -or- it's dynamic.
The fact that it's returning the same, possibly predictable, address is
independent of the fact that it's a /dynamic/ process.
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Grant. . . .
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