Re: installing sarge using possible IPv6 IP

[Rick Berger <rberger@sympatico.ca>]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 22:34 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, can you give me any other suggestions on how I can get the dhcp
connection working on the sarge network install floppies?


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