On these machines, ipv6 is disabled by setting /proc/sys/
bas@machine:
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Listening on LPF/ens5/
Sending on LPF/ens5/
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST for 10.0.16.20 on ens5 to 255.255.255.255 port
67
DHCPACK of 10.0.16.20 from 10.0.16.1
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
bound to 10.0.16.20 -- renewal in 1796 seconds.
Could not get a link-local address
run-parts: /etc/network/
ifup: failed to bring up ens5
Even worse, on boot the machines do get a proper ipv4 address, but (apparently because setting up the network fails), the dhcp (v4) daemon is stopped, and the machines "mysteriously" drop off the net after the lease ends.