Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 01:12:41PM CET, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> said:
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:22:26PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Reco wrote:
> >
> > > > On the EeePC Ctl-Alt-F3 /dev/tty3:
> > > > ~ # ip address
> > > > 3: enp0s4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> ...
> > > > ...
> > > > inet 10.218.0.100 scope global enp0s4
> > > > inet6 fe80::22cf:30ff:fe10:43fd/64 scope link
> > > >
> > > > The "fe" at the beginning of the IPv6 address says that this is not capable
> > > > of working with the public IPv6 network.
> > >
> > > There's one crucial detail that's missing here. I agree that fe80
> > > designates link-local IPv6 (they don't put "scope link" there for
> > > nothing), but what about routing?
> > > I.e. I'm curious about the output of "ip -6 ro l".
> >
> > rprice@kananga:~$ ip -6 ro l
> > fe80::/64 dev wlan0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
>
> Now *that* actually means it should be impossible for this host to
> connect to 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7.
No. In SLAAC the router often sends its linklocal address as
gateway. The IP address of the gateway has only one use : to get it's
mac address (same in IPv4 or IPv6), thus link local is OK.
--
Erwan
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