I have Cacti installed so that I have pretty graphs (CPU/load/memory/disk/network) for all my servers (VPS) in one place. I just enabled full IPv6 on one of them and Cacti stopped working. The problem wasn’t Cacti though, it was the server it was now trying to contact through IPv6. As I only need SNMP for […]
Tag: IPv6
Solving “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48” permanently
If you have a recent distribution of Linux, you might find the message “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48” repeated a lot in syslog. If you Google this error message you’ll quickly find that this is because IPv6 auto configuration (sort of like DHCP) is failing. Now if you don’t want to bother with […]