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Source: http://www.davidc.net/networking/ipv6-source-address-selection-linux Sometimes it is desirable to have the outgoing IPv6 address on an interface selected deterministically. All else being equal, Linux will default to using the latest address added to the interface as the source address. This is generally not what you would expect or want. This article describes how to influence the source address [...]

Does IPv4 subnetting apply to IPv6? Yes, and it still uses binary values of 1 to define a mask, but there are two substantial differences due to the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 notation: How the mask looks. (notation) What gets masked. (which bits) How an IPv6 Mask Looks (Notation) An IPv6 subnet mask is [...]