It’s a little different, but you can use ULAs to have a static subnet with static device addresses.
One of the biggest changes from IPv4 when I enabled IPv6 a while back was that it’s fine and normal to have multiple addresses per interface now. ULAs are not globally routable, so I think of them as LAN addresses. Another option that comes to mind is mDNS, but I think support for that is not as widely accepted.
Global addresses can change, just as your home dynamic IPv4 probably did from time to time.
> It's unfortunate, but IPv6 doesn't really solve any problems for a home user.
CG-NAT and strict NAT in general. Newer ISPs often force users onto CG-NAT, and my consoles have had numerous issues with NAT in general over the years. ISP routers also often make fixing this an opaque or impossible problem for the user.
I don’t think IPv6 is the best thing ever, but I do think it solves the problems IPv4 did along with some annoying issues IPv4 struggled with.
One of the biggest changes from IPv4 when I enabled IPv6 a while back was that it’s fine and normal to have multiple addresses per interface now. ULAs are not globally routable, so I think of them as LAN addresses. Another option that comes to mind is mDNS, but I think support for that is not as widely accepted.
Global addresses can change, just as your home dynamic IPv4 probably did from time to time.
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