Your message dated Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:58:34 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#782699: debian-boot: IPv6 prefix notation in the
installer
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Package: debian-boot
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i ipv6
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
When using IPv6 addresses in the installer the prefix (netmask) has do be
entered in
hex (e.g. ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::). I think this is highly unusual and I have
never seen
this notation before.
RFC 4291 2.3 states:
The text representation of IPv6 address prefixes is similar to the
way IPv4 address prefixes are written in Classless Inter-Domain
Routing (CIDR) notation [CIDR]. An IPv6 address prefix is
represented by the notation:
ipv6-address/prefix-length
where
ipv6-address is an IPv6 address in any of the notations listed in Section
2.2.
prefix-length is a decimal value specifying how many of the leftmost
contiguous bits of the
address comprise the prefix.
On the other hand the Prefix is displayed as 255.255.255.255 in the
configuration dialog when
supplied via extra-option on the command line.
Example: http://www.quux.de/Bilder/debinst-v6.jpg
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Hi,
gyptazy <gypt...@gyptazy.com> wrote (Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:59:34 +0200):
> Hey everyone!
>
> Jens mentioned this bug today during the BSP in Vienna. I think this already
> got solved a few iterations earlier - at least in Bookworm this looks fine to
> me where I can simply set "fc01::666/64" (don’t judge the range).
>
> Screenshot:
> https://cdn.gyptazy.com/images/debian_ipv6_installer_screen.jpg
>
> Guess, almost 10yrs later this can be closed?
Done. Thanks for the hint
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