can't make ipv4 dhcp and ipv6 static both exist

Neil Watson tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 5 18:05:09 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 12:59:19PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>Very likely everytime the dhcp client for IPv4 gets an addres, it wipes
>all the addresses on the interface.

I think it's a bug. I was working before an update, so I'll wait to see
if the bug is fixed.

>Also why are you using ifconfig?  ip addr and ip -6 addr are the modern
>ways to check IP settings.  ifconfig doesn't generally work well with
>multiple IPs on an interface, and is just obsolete (and also uses /proc
>parsing rather than netlink).

Again this worked fine before. ifconfig output is more readable than ip.
For active work, I would use ip.

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