[Babel-users] Error when running babeld

[Callahan, David (US)]

https://github.com/babel/babel/releases/tag/v7.8.4

I see on github that the latest stable release of babel is 7.8.4.

Are there competing versions of babeld on gitub, for example, you say 1.8.5 or 1.9.1
Yet, gitub above is saying 7.8.4.

Thanks
Dave

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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> 
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Subject: Re: [Babel-users] Error when running babeld

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> nemo at xavier-pavlov1:~$ babeld -V

> babeld-1.7.0

That's a very old version of babeld (it's over four years old).
I strongly recommend that you upgrade to either 1.8.5 or 1.9.1.

> Interface eth0 has no link-local address.

The interface should get a link-local address automatically as soon as the link is up (a cable is plugged in).  Please plug the cable in before running babeld.

(Babeld should recover if the link indication appears after it is started, but I'm not sure how well that works in the old version you're using.)

> I don't want IPV6 on the system.

If there's no IPv6 address on the system, Babel still uses IPv6 for link-local communication.  This should be of no import to you -- the fact that IPv6 is used internally has no bearing on whether it routes IPv4, IPv6 or both.

-- Juliusz