On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:37:52AM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > Hi veteran admins, > > It seems that my new router uses IPv6. Perhaps that means > the ISP does so as well. > > My problem is connecting via dhcp over ethernet. On IRC > I was advised to try > > ping ff02::1%eth1 > > which fails to get a response, indicating IPv6 is not enabled in my client. > > I tried setting "iface eth1 inet6 dhcp" in /etc/network/interfaces, > then "ifup eth1". This fails with > > no link-local IPv6 address for eth1 > > References suggest that "ifconfig eth1 up" or "ip link set dev eth1 up" > will trigger the kernel to assign an IPv6 address. Since > this is not happening, I'm asking the wisdom of the list VUAs > how to enable IPv6 for this port. > > Thanks in advance,
I can add that I have problem connecting to the router via wifi. ifconfig wlan2 shows both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. grep CONFIG_IPV6 /boot/config-$(uname -r) shows that all the IPv6 drivers are compiled into the kernel. -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
