[mythtv] Proposed change to Network Communications

[Peter Bennett]

On 03/09/2017 04:42 PM, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> This will work for all the "local" addresses inside a home network.
>
> As ipv6 gains more widespread adoption, the primary mechanism that
> ISP's will use to provide global ipv6 address space inside the home
> network is "prefix delegation". This is where the ISP tells the
> router the /64 network that it should assign addresses from.
>
> This allows all the normal ipv6 automatic address selection (SLAAC)
> to occur, and things to "just work".
>
> We should ensure that if the backend has an ipv6 ip with global scope,
> then connections from within that subnet are considered local.
>
> I hope this makes sense?
>
>
> Regards
> Stuart
Yes - I missed that. Even if I have carefully assigned unique local IPV6 
addresses to all my computers, I suppose the frontend still may try to 
connect to the backend from its global address and not its local 
address. Or, I may not have assigned unique local addresses to my frontends.

So I need to allow incoming IPV6 with subnet that matches any IPV6 
address that I have.

Peter