[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#854176: Bug#854176: wicd: Support IPv6-only networks

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + upstream confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/1661892

Hi,

Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> wicd gets upset on IPv6-only networks, on which no IPv4-talking DHCP
> server exists to give an IPv4 address.

Yes. wicd currently seems to require the DHCP(v4) client to succeed.

Have you tried to configure a static IPv4 address without gateway (and
maybe uncheck the "ping gateway" setting under Advanced Settings) as a
workaround?

> To solve this, it might be useful at first to make it a non-default
> option; something like a ticky-box in network properties to select if
> the network is 'v6-only
> 
>   [ ]  IPv6-only network
> 
> If such option were ticked, then wicd shouldn't bother awaiting an IPv4
> address, but simply be happy when a 'v6 has appeared.

That's definitely out of scope for a quick and simple patch against
the Debian package and should be done upstream. I've forwarded your
bug report to https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/1661892

		Regards, Axel
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