[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#854423: Does not work on IPv6-only networks

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 11:53:41PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:39:23AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>>
>>Same question to you as to the other reporter: Have you tried to
>>configure a static IPv4 dummy address as workaround? (Just out of
>>curiosity if that's a workaround which could be recommended until
>>the issue is fixed properly.)
>
>Ah, didn't think of that. That's a possible thing to try,
>yes. As/when/if I get the time to play with this again (maybe on a
>separate test network at home), I'll give that a try.

I've tried this now. It's slightly problematic, as wicd tries to ping
the gateway it's given to validate connectivity. By using the local v4
address as the gateway too, that defeats this check. Then wicd keeps
the network interface up. Beyond that, I can't say much - I'm not
getting much useful networking beyond that but that's possibly my
network setup... :-/

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