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InvisibleShadowGhost
Asked: 2018-08-13 08:49:29 +0800 CST

Why do I have three ip v6 adresses

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The output of ifconfig is the following

wlp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
    inet 192.168.178.43  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.178.255
    inet6 xxxx::xxxx  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
    inet6 yyyy::yyyy  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
    inet6 zzzz::zzzz  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
    ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
    RX packets 10043888  bytes 13826164373 (13.8 GB)
    RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
    TX packets 3274278  bytes 382981422 (382.9 MB)
    TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Why does one interface need/have three ip v6 addresses?

networking

1 Answers

  1. IPv6 differs from IPv4 not only in longer addresses, but also in address scopes for these addresses.

    This means that every IPv6 address has a so-called scope. The scope is the part of a network in which the associated address is recognized as valid and routed.

    You have 2 global scope and one link scope.

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