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   On 2025-12-29 at 19:48 AST, Pancho  wrote:   
   > On 12/27/25 23:25, Theo wrote:   
   >> Jim Diamond  wrote:   
   >>> I was looking at my network and discovered an IP which I didn't know about;   
   >>> after a few seconds of investigation I discovered that one of my Pis (which   
   >>> is on wifi only, and only has one wifi card) has two IPs.   
   >>>   
   >>> Two of my other Pis are running the same version of Raspberry Pi OS (i.e.,   
   >>> "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)").  They don't do this.   
   >>>   
   >>> Looking around the net, there are claims that this is because Pis might try   
   >>> to netboot, and that later on in the boot process they also get their usual   
   >>> IP the "usual" way.  (In my case I am using networkmanager.)   
   >>>   
   >>> I can't imagine what I did to make one of my Pis want to (try to) netboot.   
   >>>   
   >>> Has anyone here seen this, and, if so, know what grievous sins I have   
   >>> committed to make this happen?  And how to make it stop?   
   >>    
   >> Is this two IPv4 addresses?  Having multiple IPv6 addresses is completely   
   >> routine.  As is having one IPv4 and one or more IPv6s.   
   >>    
   >   
   > Yes, I have recently been experimenting with IPv6.   
   >   
   > IPv6 uses:  Static Addresses, Link-Local, DHCPv6, Router Advertisements,    
   > and SLAAC.  Proving me with multiple, often random, IPv6 addresses. This    
   > totally broke my IP rule based routing.   
   >   
   > Unlike my Linux machines, My Android devices take a whole IPv6 block    
   > (prefix delegation). I think I'll change all my Linux hosts to this too.    
   > I quite like the protection of random addresses, but want them    
   > constrained to a recognisable range for each host.   
   >   
   > Some websites fail, some apt repos fail under IPv6.   
   >   
   > IPv6 seems like a world of pain.   
      
   Did someone say "new and improved" ?  ;-)   
      
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