[Babel-users] Error when running babeld

[Callahan, David (US)]

Using UBUNTU Linux 18.04:

$sudo apt-get install babeld
Babeld is already the newest version (1.7.0-1build1).

So the Ubunti repos for the latest babeld are 1.7.0.



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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020 9:42 AM
To: Callahan, David (US) <david.callahan at baesystems.com>
Cc: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr>; Babel-users at alioth-lists.debian.net
Subject: Re: [Babel-users] Error when running babeld

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 6:27 AM Callahan, David (US) <david.callahan at baesystems.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

The definitive repo is here:

https://github.com/jech/babeld/releases/


> Thanks
> Dave
>
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> From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr>
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2020 4:57 PM
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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
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