Fedora FC6 network install problems with eVGA nForce 680i motherboard

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Nov 16 00:48:13 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:42 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > it takes longer on FC-6 because FC-6 is trying to get ipv4 & ipv6 DHCP
> > assignment and few people configure and none of the appliance devices
> > that I am aware of provide ipv6 addresses via DHCP
> 
> Ahh, thanks.  Although I wonder why it doesn't take as long during a
> normal FC6 boot?
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a normal FC-6 boot that has a static IP Address or a normal FC-6 boot
that gets an ipv6 address from a DHCP server?

The former should be obvious.

The latter - probably because dhcpd will reassign the same lease over
and over again to the same MAC address

Craig




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