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I recently switched to Telus and have run into the issue of my IP address changing regularly. The problem with that is I do a bit of Google Analytics tracking on some websites - I filter out my inter...
Yes. The prefix is unique to you and should only change infrequently. The same prefix apples to all nodes in the local area network (unless you set up subnets, which is beyond me).
Is it the IPv6 prefix that is changing or only the interface id. The telus supplied prefix, in my case, has not changed in the year and a half I have been on pure fibre. There are normally two interface ids, one is static and the other changes as a security issue. This is done by the device not telus.
Ah, I see. The prefix looks to be static. This prefix should still be unique to me, right? If so, that will work as I can filter out anything starting with that prefix (web analytics stuff)
Yes. The prefix is unique to you and should only change infrequently. The same prefix apples to all nodes in the local area network (unless you set up subnets, which is beyond me).
