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I have a system with a primary IP address of 2001:DB8:1::1/64. This IP is achieved via stateless auto config and is static for our purposes.

This system has a routed IP block of 2001:DB8:2::/64.

I would like to ensure that by default, all IPv6 traffic originating from the system uses 2001:DB8:1::1. (Applications could override this with a specific source binding.)

The best way to do this appears to be, from my research, to run

ip addrlabel add prefix 2001:DB8:1::1/128 label 1 
ip addrlabel add prefix 2001:DB8:2::/64 label 99

What would be a proper Ubuntu way to have this run at startup?

Thanks to Anders input i was able to do this by adding the following lines, in /etc/network/interfaces

up /sbin/ip addrlabel add prefix 2001:DB8:1::1/128 label 1 
up /sbin/ip addrlabel add prefix 2001:DB8:2::/64 label 99 
...
down /sbin/ip addrlabel del prefix 2001:DB8:1::1/128 label 1 
down /sbin/ip addrlabel del prefix 2001:DB8:2::/64 label 99

This works great, and also covers clean-up if the interface is brought down.

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Add it to /etc/network/interfaces as a post-up to the interface.

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