Your message dated Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:58:34 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#782699: debian-boot: IPv6 prefix notation in the installer has caused the Debian Bug report #782699, regarding debian-boot: IPv6 prefix notation in the installer to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-boot Severity: normal Tags: d-i ipv6 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash 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. RFC 4291 2.3 states: The text representation of IPv6 address prefixes is similar to the way IPv4 address prefixes are written in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation [CIDR]. An IPv6 address prefix is represented by the notation: ipv6-address/prefix-length where ipv6-address is an IPv6 address in any of the notations listed in Section 2.2. prefix-length is a decimal value specifying how many of the leftmost contiguous bits of the address comprise the prefix. On the other hand the Prefix is displayed as 255.255.255.255 in the configuration dialog when supplied via extra-option on the command line. Example: http://www.quux.de/Bilder/debinst-v6.jpg
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, gyptazy <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:59:34 +0200): > Hey everyone! > > Jens mentioned this bug today during the BSP in Vienna. I think this already > got solved a few iterations earlier - at least in Bookworm this looks fine to > me where I can simply set "fc01::666/64" (don’t judge the range). > > Screenshot: > https://cdn.gyptazy.com/images/debian_ipv6_installer_screen.jpg > > Guess, almost 10yrs later this can be closed? Done. Thanks for the hint -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
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