Re: installing sarge using possible IPv6 IP
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:51:08PM -0400, Rick Berger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying, without success, to do DHCP install using the sarge
> floppies. When my Ubuntu box is connected and I do an ifconfig eth0 to
> find out the ip address I get:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:84:DF:27
> inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e6ff:fe84:df27/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:7630 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:7822 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:294 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:3426188 (3.2 MiB) TX bytes:652736 (637.4 KiB)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
>
> Is the 'inet6 addr:' the problem and how do I get around it?
No, not at all. It is an automatic address in the IPv6 space that the
system assigns to itself by embedding the MAC address in a special
prefix, which happens automatically if you load the IPv6 network module.
It cannot have any impact whatsoever regarding IPv4. That is plainly
impossible.
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