Re: ipv6 ::1 and lo dev

On Wed, 18 Aug 2021, Oleg wrote:

I try to replace ::1/128 ipv6 address on lo dev with ::1/112 to
access more than 1 address(like with ipv4 127.0.0.1/8). But i get

AIUI this is not possible in IPv6, only :: and ::1 are reserved,
the rest of ::/96 is IPv4-compatible IPv6 addresses.

I never understood why you’d want more than one address for loopback
anyway (in my experience, the more addresses a host has, the more
confused it’ll get about which ones to use for what).

bye,
//mirabilos
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