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Router shows different IPv6 than ifconfig (Mint 18.1)

So I'm trying to set up port forwarding, which I've done plenty of times. I logged into my router through my browser, click over to the port forwarding page, and select my laptop from the drop-down menu of devices. It shows my laptop's IPv6 as "2600:280:8200:d2:5168:a2c5:3e5d:409d" but when I check that in my terminal, I get a different IPv6:

Code:

 ~ $ ifconfig

[...]

wlp4s0  [...]

          inet6 addr: 2600:280:8200:d2:b37:d298:e593:7224/64 Scope:Global

          inet6 addr: 2600:280:8200:d2:d90a:46e8:bde3:da48/64 Scope:Global

          inet6 addr: 2600:280:8200:d2::5fa3/128 Scope:Global

          inet6 addr: fe80::3d81:edec:be55:e2dc/64 Scope:Link

What gives?

The router has the correct hostname for my laptop and the correct MAC, but the IPv6 doesn't match

Are you blocking icmp? Neighbor discovery should tell the router your IP.

Why do you have 3 different addresses on one interface in the same scope?

jlinkels

Quote:

Originally Posted by smallpond (Post 5780545)

Are you blocking icmp? Neighbor discovery should tell the router your IP.

No idea.. how would I know if I was? And how would I do neighbor discovery?

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlinkels (Post 5780560)

Why do you have 3 different addresses on one interface in the same scope?

jlinkels

No idea.. I wondered about that too. I just copy and pasted the output from ifconfig