[PLUG] Laptop boots with Ethernet ports ipv6

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 19:56:52 UTC 2017


Mostly likely because your router address is 192.168.1.1 so the laptop
cannot have the same address. Pick different between 2-250.

-Tomas

On Nov 10, 2017 9:57 AM, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>   This is a completely new issue here.
>
>   I'm using my Dell Latitude E5410, running Slackware-14.2/x86_64 to
> configure the Ubiquiti ER-X. The laptop's eth0 IP address needs to be set
> to 192.168.1.1 to configure the router's WAN port. Then I need to change
> the
> laptop's eth0 IP address to 192.168.55.2 (its LAN host address) because the
> Ubiquti's LAN IP address was changed to 192.168.55.4. This swapping
> back-and-forth lead to last week's thread and Wes' suggestion to have both
> subnet IP addresses assigned to eth0. I did this.
>
>   Now, however, I cannot ping LAN hosts or the Ubiquiti router. Looking at
> inconfig eth0 on the laptop now shows it has an ipv6 address rather than
> the
> expected ipv4 address. Huh? How'd this happen?
>
>   I've no idea what caused this but need to learn ASAP how to get it back
> to
> using ipv4 addressing.
>
>   Never a dull moment with computers, eh?
>
> Rich
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