drkt , 10 months ago

How are you tracking their ips on ipv6?

Are you able to type the ip off the top of your head?

I write them down, just as I do v4. I don’t type v4 off the top of my head any more than I do v6- but even if I did, I’d only have to really memorize the prefix because that’s all universal across my whole network. For example, look at this that I ripped from my documentation:

<span style="color:#323232;">                                == PROXMOX CONTAINERS &amp; VIRTUAL MACHINES ======================
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:TorRelay      -       192.168.78.160  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::12ad
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:Gonic         -       192.168.78.161  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::1255
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:Wireguard     -       192.168.78.162  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::1666
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                V:ADS-B         -       192.168.78.163  /  NA
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:Apache        -       192.168.78.164  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::1337
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:Backups       -       192.168.78.165  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::0107
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:PiHole        -       192.168.78.166  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::1811
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:NetworkFun    -       192.168.78.167  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::1192
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:MovieSync     -       192.168.78.168  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::2356
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                                C:Owncast       -       192.168.78.170  /  2a05:f6c7:8039::1368
</span>

Do you see the pattern? I could have made it even simpler. I could’ve made the last quartet of the v6 address the same as the last octet of the v4 address, but I didn’t think of it at the time. I’ve memorized more credit cards than I have IP addresses in total, which you will surely agree are more complex, so I’m not worried about when the time comes to drop v4 and its time to memorize v6. It will come naturally with use, as the credit cards have

In practice, I’ve found, that it is simply not a problem. If I don’t know the last quartet off the top of my head, I won’t know the last octet either so I have to look it up anyway. All my network documentation is available with a simple curl command. If I do know the last quartet but not the prefix, I could type ‘ip a’ and find the prefix right there.