On 07/10/2017 05:42 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote:
On 07/10/17 17:32, Ed Greshko wrote:
Odd that you're getting an IPV6 error message. I don't have a global IPv6 address and only show....
[egreshko@f25f system]$ ip address show enp0s3 2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 08:00:27:15:6d:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.198/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic enp0s3 valid_lft 84207sec preferred_lft 84207sec inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe15:6de0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Yes, I also found that strange. But the address shown is the right one per the output of ifconfig. I'm not intentionally running v6...
The IPV6 you're seeing is the IPV6 link-local Unicast representation of your MAC address. All systems have that. It's part of IPV6's neighbor discovery and stateless address configuration systems.
Link-local Unicast addresses can't be routed--they're only visible on the link the NIC is attached to. You can sort of think of them as the IPV6 equivalent of IPV4's "224.0.0.0" addresses, although they do more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------