Basically I want to connect my two computers (both have gigabit interfaces), and without setting up a DHCP server or making one of them static, to use the link-local IPv6 addresses to run a backup ...

IPv6 addressing within a network has a few major differences from IPv4. With IPv4 certain address ranges are reserved for private networks (such as 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16) and link-local ...

direct ethernet connection between my laptop and desktop gigabit ports and using IPv6 link-local addresses to pump data back and forth. It works great, but to my great surprise, it seems like none ...

with clients automatically configuring a link-local IPv6 address to communicate with compatible hosts running on the same subnet. But do these organizations need to obtain a block of globally ...

As we’ll see in a minute, IPv6 addresses can sometimes be abbreviated in a way that allows them to be expressed with fewer characters. 2: Link local unicast addresses are easy to identify IPv6 ...

Tired of individually configuring an IP addresses for every device in your network? Well, it gets a lot easier in IPv6. In v6 a router broadcasts its 64-bit link-local prefix. A Link-local address ...

The IPv6 All-Nodes link-local multicasts group address (FF02::1) is as close as IPv6 comes to a broadcast, and IoT devices attempt to use unicast messages whenever possible to further conserve ...

necessary for resolving domain names to IPv6 addresses. The Internet Options dialog includes a Configure IPv6 pop-up menu that lets you choose from Link-Local Only (use only on local network), ...