Hello,
I have a Ubee cable modem that I rent from Spectrum (formerly TWC). It has a DHCPv4 and a DHCPv6 server on it that hands out the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (respectively). I noticed the addresses from the DHCPv4 server are private. I configured it for the 192.168.2.0 network. I started the pool at 20. I setup some of my clients (printer, Linux box, laptop, gaming consoles, etc) as static.
Then I noticed the DHCPv6 server is handing out public IPv6 addresses. I'm still a bit confused with IPv6 but I'm slowly learning. I wanted to know if it's possible to configure that server to hand out unique-link addresses, from the fc00::/7 network, without anything breaking.
For example, I see in the cable modem's UI System Delegated Prefix and it has the IPv6 global link address (the public ones). I can change that to a user delegated prefix (fc00::/7). I can change what address it starts handing out the IPv6 addresses as. But will this prevent me from accessing the internet with IPv6?
With IPv4, I had to configure the gateway to the private IP address of the cable modem (192.168.2.1). The cable modem doesn't have a DNS server running on it, so when it was set to DHCP, I saw what it had setup for the DNS servers (dns1.rr.com, dns2.rr.com, etc) and I configured my Linux box to use those DNS servers. Will I have to do the same with the IPv6 stuff?
I've tried searching the internet but I couldn't really find a lot of stuff on doing this with OpenSuSE. I can't really find much about the IPv6 and the Ubee modems, at least I couldn't find anything about what I'm trying to do.
Thanks!
I have a Ubee cable modem that I rent from Spectrum (formerly TWC). It has a DHCPv4 and a DHCPv6 server on it that hands out the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (respectively). I noticed the addresses from the DHCPv4 server are private. I configured it for the 192.168.2.0 network. I started the pool at 20. I setup some of my clients (printer, Linux box, laptop, gaming consoles, etc) as static.
Then I noticed the DHCPv6 server is handing out public IPv6 addresses. I'm still a bit confused with IPv6 but I'm slowly learning. I wanted to know if it's possible to configure that server to hand out unique-link addresses, from the fc00::/7 network, without anything breaking.
For example, I see in the cable modem's UI System Delegated Prefix and it has the IPv6 global link address (the public ones). I can change that to a user delegated prefix (fc00::/7). I can change what address it starts handing out the IPv6 addresses as. But will this prevent me from accessing the internet with IPv6?
With IPv4, I had to configure the gateway to the private IP address of the cable modem (192.168.2.1). The cable modem doesn't have a DNS server running on it, so when it was set to DHCP, I saw what it had setup for the DNS servers (dns1.rr.com, dns2.rr.com, etc) and I configured my Linux box to use those DNS servers. Will I have to do the same with the IPv6 stuff?
I've tried searching the internet but I couldn't really find a lot of stuff on doing this with OpenSuSE. I can't really find much about the IPv6 and the Ubee modems, at least I couldn't find anything about what I'm trying to do.
Thanks!
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