[rhelv6-beta-list] Installer & enabling RHEL 6 repo - "IPv4" in pop-up
David Cantrell
dcantrell at redhat.com
Fri Apr 23 15:13:31 UTC 2010
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Vanco Backup wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:27 PM, David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Vanco Backup wrote:
>>
>>> ...should likely read "Enable IPv6" - no?
>>>
>>> When I click to enable the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 Beta yada
>>> yada yada" repo I get a pop-up prompting me to enable a network
>>> interface. And there's a check-box to "Enable IPv4 Support" - should
>>> that not read enable IPv6? Seems only logical to me.....
>>>
>>
>> Second, the network configuration dialog you are seeing there is limited in
>> the beta. The IPv6 controls on the dialog are there, just disabled in the
>> beta 1 release because we were still in the process of working out details
>> for
>> IPv6 configuration in the underlying dependent components.
>
> OK - that's great. But it still doesn't change the fact that the text
> reads "IPv4" and not "IPv6" as I suspect it should :)
Actually, IPv4 is correct in this context. When the IPv6 controls are
enabled, it will make a little more sense. The reason there is a checkbox
there for IPv4 is that you could disable IPv4 if you were operating on a 100%
IPv6 network. With the other controls invisible, it looks a bit confusing.
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David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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