On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:39:23AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: >Control: retitle -1 wicd: Does not work on IPv6-only networks >Control: forcemerge 854176 -1 > >Hi Steve, > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I found this over the weekend at FOSDEM. > >You're not the only one: https://bugs.debian.org/854176 :-)
ACK. When I first looked for an existing bug, that wasn't there... :-) >Merging these two bug reports. > >> I've dug into this, and I can see why. If DHCP doesn't return a v4 >> lease on a connection attempt (dhcp_failed), it aborts the >> connection. > >Same question to you as to the other reporter: Have you tried to >configure a static IPv4 dummy address as workaround? (Just out of >curiosity if that's a workaround which could be recommended until >the issue is fixed properly.) Ah, didn't think of that. That's a possible thing to try, yes. As/when/if I get the time to play with this again (maybe on a separate test network at home), I'll give that a try. >> I've started to hack on this a little bit over the weekend to see if >> there's an easy fix (if no v4 lease acquired, check to see if a >> global v6 address has been assigned), > >Much appreciated! > >> but I ran out of time to test this properly. > >Understandable. FOSDEM is always too short and there's too much to >see. :-) *grin* Exactly. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
