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> Since I don't (currently) want anything at all to be generally externally accessible, it seems that I could just use ULAs for the LAN machines and not assign
by throw0101c 2y ago
> Since I don't (currently) want anything at all to be generally externally accessible, it seems that I could just use ULAs for the LAN machines and not assign them globally-routable addresses..... but at that point I guess there's no reason to be configuring IPv6 at all (?), which is exactly the current state of my LAN.
You can have ULA address and globally-routable addresses (GRA) at the same time: they are not mutually exclusive. IPv6 was designed to (possibly) have multiple addresses on the same interface, while with IPv4 this is a (bit of a) 'strange' configuration (to have multiple addresses/aliases).
So go ahead and assign a ULA if you wish, but your system will also just get an address which is globally addressable (but not globally reachable address because of firewalls).