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Linux Administration Cookbook
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Linux Administration Cookbook

by Adam K. Dean
December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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SSHing to an IPv6 address

IPv6 addresses look a lot more imposing than they really are, and it's advisable that you get to grips with them sooner rather than later (even if people have been predicting the dominance of IPv6 for over a decade now).

For this example, we're going to find the IPv6 address of centos2 and connect to that.

First, connect to centos2 and run the ip a command:

[vagrant@centos2 ~]$ ip a<SNIP>3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000    link/ether 08:00:27:56:c5:a7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff    inet 192.168.33.11/24 brd 192.168.33.255 scope global noprefixroute eth1       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe56:c5a7/64 scope link  valid_lft forever preferred_lft ...
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