Disabling IPv6 Stateless Autoconfiguration
October 9th, 2010
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I have Vyatta setup to send out router advertisements so clients are auto configured with an IPv6 address. This works great for workstations, but I prefer servers to be manually configured. The auto configured address on Linux is built from the MAC address and on Windows it is randomly generated. When assigning a static IPv6 address the auto configured address is still assigned so you end up with two addresses. Read more…