According to most recent RFCs IPv6 addresses starting with 0xFD are considered unique local addresses.   This is more or less equivalent to the IPv4 private addresses.<br><br>I have the following IPv6 address configured on eth0<br>
<br>fd00:1111::41/32<br><br>When I run ifconfig eth0 I get:<br><br>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:F8:0E:76:F2  <br>          inet addr:10.0.0.65  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0<br>          inet6 addr: fe80::218:f8ff:fe0e:76f2/64 Scope:Link<br>
          inet6 addr: fd00:1111::41/32 Scope:Global<br>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1<br>          RX packets:15616420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>          TX packets:11913944 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br>          RX bytes:13426298081 (12.5 GiB)  TX bytes:1913387990 (1.7 GiB)<br>          Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe700 <br><br>Notice that the entry for fd00:1111::41/32 shows its scope as Global.  I would have expected something else.  Am I just misunderstanding the concept of local vs global?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Paolo<br>