On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 06:31:54PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:44:57PM +0200, Jens Link wrote: > > 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. > > I agree with that. How high are the chances that this prominent > installer issue will be looked at or even addressed seven years after it > was originally filed?
After digging a bit in codesearch, I think that this actually belongs to the netcfg package. The error message encountered by Jens is still in debian/netcfg-static.templates, in netcfg/bad_ipaddress, which is invoked in various places inside static.c. The line debconf_set(client, "netcfg/get_netmask", "ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::"); in netcfg_get_netmask strongly suggests that the original author seriously thinks that this is a correct way to notate an IPv6 prefix length. Greetings Marc