I am trying to switch VPS providers. They offer Ubuntu 20 and 24 to be reinstalled via SolusVM. Since version 24 is not supported by MIAB, I am mounting Ubuntu 22.04 to the CD-ROM and installing it.
The installation is complete. Howevever, I can’t get IPv6 assigned. Yes, they offer IPv6 and if I install Ubuntu 20 or 24, IPv6 works fine. However, since I’m mounting Ubuntu 22.04 to the CD-ROM and installing it this way, it’s not as straight forward.
If I run the ip command, I can see Inet6 is enabled and I’m getting a fe80 prefix local-link. I have been Googl’ing for the last few hours, but. I can’t get my IPv6 address assigned Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I’ve already tried /etc/network/interfaces but this didn’t help. When I reinstall Ubuntu 20 with a working IPv6 address, I went into this file and copied the text. I pasted it when reinstalling Ubuntu 22.04.
I’ve tried looking in /etc/netplan/00-filename.yaml file, but changing this resulted in no luck.
Thank you. However, IPv6 is already enabled. As mentioned, if I run the ip a command, I do see “inet6” followed by a local-link fe80 prefix.
During Ubuntu install, I tried enabling DHCP6 for IPv6, but that didn’t work. I tried setting Static IPv6 address using the gateway, subnet, and IPv6 address given by the VPS provider, but that didn’t work either.
If I install Ubuntu version 20 or 24 from their “reinstall” list, IPv6 is turned on and working by default. I can ping the IPv6 box after install. However, as we know, MIAB supports Ubuntu version 22. Therefore, I have to mount version 22 to the CD-ROM and install during boot.
Get another ISO of Ubuntu 22.04.
Or it might be your VPS is preventing IPV6 with own ISO disk installations. Ask them because they often have their own scripts with own security patches of the Ubuntu versions they offer as images. They patch their own versions to address their own security issues. If this is not the case I don’t have any other ideas.