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ipv6privateloopback.sh

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1	1		#!/bin/sh
2		-	# Asuming you want to make a random private /120 prefix in IPv6 and have all of those addresses assigned to the loopback interface (dev lo), and you're root, and have https://gitlab.com/ipcalc/ipcalc installed, run:
	2	+	# Assuming you want to make a random private /120 prefix in IP and have all of
	3	+	# those addresses assigned to the loopback interface (dev lo), and you're root,
	4	+	# and have https://gitlab.com/ipcalc/ipcalc installed, and aren't in a network
	5	+	# namespace other than global, run:
	6	+	#
	7	+	# If you also want to be able to bind to those IP addresses, run the following command:
	8	+	# sysctl -w net.ipv6.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1
	9	+	#
	10	+	#
	11	+	# IPv4 is obsolete, so IP in this document means IPv6
	12	+	#
	13	+	# ~jmjl
	14	+
	15	+	# Sets NETWORK and PREFIX with the random network
	16	+	# and 120, which is the prefix we have hardcoded in this line.
3	17		eval "$(ipcalc -r 120 -np)"
	18	+
	19	+	# Making it such that netpref is the network + prefix so we can give it to ip
4	20		netpref="${NETWORK}/${PREFIX}"
	21	+
	22	+	# Adds the address to the loopback interface lo, and sets scope to host as this
	23	+	# IP will only be valid inside this host
5	24		ip addr add "$netpref" dev lo scope host
	25	+
	26	+	# Adds a route so that traffic going to the IP range will go to the local
	27	+	# machine
6	28		ip route add local "$netpref" dev lo

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ipv6privateloopback.sh(file created)

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1	+	#!/bin/sh
2	+	# Asuming you want to make a random private /120 prefix in IPv6 and have all of those addresses assigned to the loopback interface (dev lo), and you're root, and have https://gitlab.com/ipcalc/ipcalc installed, run:
3	+	eval "$(ipcalc -r 120 -np)"
4	+	netpref="${NETWORK}/${PREFIX}"
5	+	ip addr add "$netpref" dev lo scope host
6	+	ip route add local "$netpref" dev lo

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