Greetings for the New Year to Debian users, Verifying and updating instructions here. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/ETH_Oberon/QEMUinstall#Network_Connection_on_a_Virtual_Machine Questions (1) and (2) follow.
root@joule:/home/root# ip link show br0 4: br0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mo de DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 92:e0:54:07:2a:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff br0 is a virtual interface; not connected to hardware. (1) How is address 92:e0:54:07:2a:e2 derived? Currently, root@joule:/home/root# ip addr show br0 4: br0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN gr oup default qlen 1000 link/ether 92:e0:54:07:2a:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.0.2.1/24 brd 10.0.2.255 scope global br0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fd99:9999:9999:9999::1/64 scope global tentative valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever The example in the documentation has these two additional lines. inet6 fe80::3082:6ff:feb6:c02a/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever (2) Why is the second inet6 address omitted from the current result? Thanks, ... P. mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope