CE 21.1.1 cannot obtain a global IPv6 address

cor961 · 1 January 2025 15:35

Hello everyone, I’m a beginner with CoreELEC. I’ve installed CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-21.1.1-Omega_nightly_****-Generic** via USB and using it on a Tencent Aurora 4 Pro TV box. With CEC, I can use it mostly without issues.

However, I’ve noticed that CE cannot obtain a global IPv6 address properly. It only gets a local address starting with fe80. I’ve already set IPv6 to “Auto” in the CoreELEC settings.

Both my router and modem are configured correctly, as other devices in my network (like Windows PCs and phones) can obtain global IPv6 addresses and access IPv6 networks without any issues.

Does anyone know how to make CE obtain a global IPv6 address properly?

The result of the ip -6 addr show command is as follows:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qlen 1
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP8000> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
inet6 fe80::*****/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

The result of the ip -6 route show command is as follows:
fe80::/64 dev eth0 metric 256
unreachable default dev lo metric -1 error -101
ff00::/8 dev eth0 metric 256
unreachable default dev lo metric -1 error -101

vpeter · 1 January 2025 15:41

I don’t know anyone using IPv6 with CE. Which means not much help.

gregeeh · 1 January 2025 19:27

My CE 21.1.1 is showing:

Ugoos:~ # ip -6 addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qlen 1
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP8000> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
    inet6 2400:a844:93c1:0:920e:b3ff:fefd:74f9/64 scope global dynamic flags 100
       valid_lft 86149sec preferred_lft 14149sec
    inet6 fe80::920e:b3ff:fefd:74f9/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Ugoos:~ #