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On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 19:34 +0200, Harald Hannelius wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > which was filed against the debian-installer package:
> >
> > #974206: debian-installer: When entering an IPv6 address, fe80::1 should be a valid gateway
> >
> > It has been closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.
>
> > No, this is a link-local address so you have to also specify the
> > interface name, e.g. "fe80::1%eth0",
>
> The installer could then give a hint that %eth0 should be added, or any
> interface name that was used in the previous step when the interface got
> it's IP-address. The user doesn't know the correct name for the interface at
> that stage, it might be ens3, eth0, wlan0, eno1, wlp1s3 or something else.
>
> I can't remember when I have had to add the interface name to the gateway
> since this configuration is usually added in the context of the interface
> being configured.
OK, yes, good point.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- Robert Coveyou
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