Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address
Hi.
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:11:24AM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Reco wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:23:06PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
> > > Later the installation hangs with the message:
> > >
> > > in-target: Failed to fetch
> > > http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/stretch/main/i18n/Translation-en
> > > Cannot initiate the connection to debian.mirrors.ovh.net:80
> > > (2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7). - connect (101: Network is unreachable)
> > > [IP 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]
> > >
> > > There is no mention of IPv4 and I do not have IPv6.
> >
> > Of course you have IPv6, probably in the form of SLAAC/RA. How else
> > Linux kernel used in the installer would know which IPv6 address to use
> > and which IPv6 route to choose to 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7.
>
> I have a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v3 router sold as IPv6 capable. I selected
> SLAAC and the following was reported in the system log:
>
> Feb 19 23:41:47 IPv6 NOTICE getSlaacParameters 477 sscanf address and prefix error
> Feb 19 23:43:32 IPv6 INFO IPv6 is not enabled.
Curious, but wonders cannot happen by themself.
> IPv6 management in the router has hung and I cannot select an alternative to
> SLAAC.
Thank you, added that particular model to my 'Do Not Buy Ever' list.
> 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".
Reco
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