On Fri, 2020-01-10 at 22:01 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose a change on a template in netcfg: [...] > _Description: Malformed IP address > The IP address you provided is malformed. It should be in the form > - x.x.x.x where each 'x' is no larger than 255 (an IPv4 address), or a > - sequence of blocks of hexadecimal digits separated by colons (an IPv6 > + x.x.x.x where each 'x' is an integer not larger than 255 (for an IPv4 > address), or > + xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx each 'xxxx' being a block of > hexadecimal digits (for an IPv6 > address). Please try again. [...]
But IPv6 addresses do not have to look like that: leading zeroes in each group can be omitted and a run of all-zero groups in the middle can be omitted. And really I think the tiny proportion of users who need to enter static network configuration will already know what an IP address looks like. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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