dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Mike

On 15/01/2020 20:27, Mike Goodman wrote:
> This could be related to the IPv6 configuration problems for which you went to 
> all the trouble of supplying a patch. As you mooted very early on (Arch forum) 
> it may be network rather than dhcpcd related after all.
Well, I'm not sure how a /128 is supposed to work over RA.
RA is broadcast to the whole network, so this can ONLY work if the whole network 
is just one host like say a router conneced to the ISP.

Still, I've finally been able to test it on my network and my patch I posted 
earlier works fine.
I've comitted the patch to both dhcpcd-8 and master branches.

> It is now a matter of great urgency that I get a mail server configured and 
> running, so leaving the IPv6 for a while. In doing so, Apache wouldn't work on 
> IP4 and the server wouldn't resolve to its fqdn. Digging for reasons and finding 
> some, with outcomes shown below, hopefully enough for you to see what's going on.
>
> ~]# lspci -v
> (leaving out all the unnecessary)
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network {lots more 
> blah blah}
> Kernel driver in use: igb <<** no kernel module present **>>
>
>   ~]# dmesg | grep igb <<** no response, straight back to command prompt **>>
>
> There's a driver, igb-dkms, in the AUR repo so I'm going to try and compile it 
> then see which problems it may solve.

Good luck with that!

> Apologies for sending you on what now looks like a red herring chase and with 
> sincere thanks for your help and patience to date. I'll let you know how I get on.

Don't appologise! I'm not sure it's entirely a red herring.

Roy