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.

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Joel Roth