IPv6 address displayed in web interface is link-only

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. enable IPv6 by installing the modules and checking the box in the web 
interface
2. have route advertisements on in the network; let the box give itself an 
address using that advertisement

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

expected:

3: look at web interface under Status → Network → IPv6 to see the newly 
assigned address (from the route advertisement)

got:

3 look at web interface under Status → Network → IPv6 and see the 
link-local address: fe80:...

In IPv6, almost always has more than one address. The link-local address is 
only useful for the immediate physical link, so it's pretty much useless to 
anything but the router/switch. Instead, it should be skipped and the next 
available IPv6 address should be shown. Link local addresses are anything 
starting "fe80:" (fe80::/64)

What Alt-F version are you using? Have you flashed it?

Alt-F-0.1RC2 unflashed

What is the box hardware revision level? A1, B1 or C1? (look at the label
at the box bottom)

C1

What is your disk configuration? Standard, RAID (what level)...

N/A (2x 2TB RAID1)

What operating system are you using on your computer? Using what browser?

N/A (Firefox, Debian/squeeze)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by g1adrift on 8 Sep 2012 at 4:44

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Neither my router nor ISP are IPV6 capable.

Can you please attach (not post please, so spaces/tabs/EOLs are preserved) a 
non-local IPV6-enabled 'ifconfig', 'route -n', 'cat /etc/resolv.conf', etc?

I heard that at least the busybox httpd server (/etc/httpd.conf) does not 
accepts IPV6 IP, any other?

Original comment by [e-mail] on 12 Sep 2012 at 2:21

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Attached is the sanitized version (I changed all MAC address-related things and 
public IPv6 addresses to placeholders) of my various network statuses.

It appears as though a number of IPv6 functions in busybox are broken. Most 
notably, inetd (which explains HTTP, ssh, and ftp not working on IPv6), and 
ping -6, as seen in the attachment.

This ticket, however, only relates to the web interface. I can post a new 
ticket regarding Busybox if that would be useful.

Original comment by g1adrift on 12 Sep 2012 at 4:07

Attachments:

• ipv6_on_dns_323.txt

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Closed by svn commit 1876:

status page:
-show all non link-local ipv6 address, closing issue 113
-shows outstanding filesystem errors, closing issue 107
-show host name as per "Dick O" request
-show swap as a progress bar

Now display as:

IPv6: 2001:db8:0:f101::1/64; 2002:db8:0:f101::1/64;

> I can post a new ticket regarding Busybox if that would be useful

If you want to do that, do it in the busybox bug tracking system.
Notice that Alt-F busybox version is probably outdated regarding the latest 
busybox release.

Thanks

Original comment by [e-mail] on 25 Sep 2012 at 9:52

• Changed state: Fixed