slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Because ipv6 allows multiple addresses for different reasons. I assume one of those addresses star with FE80 which is for your local lan devices to talk to each other and that long one is your actual global address to access the internet. Without seeing the actual prefixes its hard to tell.
Mim@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
The third one is is the link local address, it has a scope of “link”.
I’d guess the other one are a host address ( a /128) and a regular /64 address.
kn33@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Could also be a /64 privacy address and a /64 “standard” address (SLAAC, DHCP, static)
Mim@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Can’t be a static address, both of the other ones are dynamic.
Also I think it’s a /128 and /64 because I think (or imagine) to be able to see a three digit and a two dogot prefix behind the black bars. It’s also what is on my machine, and I’m a lazy bum who didn’t do any config besides setting a DNS server of my choice. My guess would also either be a SLAAC address and one getting from the DHCP (usually the router) or one of them is a generated privacy address.
(Long story short: I agree with you except for the very last word).