Hi,

I am new to Fedora-server21, and its been 3 days that I am not able to start working on it. I have installed fedora21 in Oracle virtualBox, and my host machine is Win 7. The installation went smoothly with no hiccups, but I am not able to see IPv4 on my fedora at all, I have followed many online post to disable, but I couldn't. I did try some suggestion from

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/ques...

But I don't think its helping me by any means. In the above link, there is another link that guide to some check up on the system for IPv6

http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/05/12/how...

It ask to execute lsmod | grep ipv6, and see if it show only "ipv6". I did, but I get below

nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_nat_ipv4,nf_nat_ipv6,ip6tables_nat

and some other menu items similar, but single "ipv6". The link do suggest to blacklist the IPv6 in some file under /etc/modprobe.d

In my machine I could see two files lying under the location

a) lockd.conf b) openfwwf.conf

there is no mention of any specific file name to be edited in the link.

Can somebody help me out to disable Ipv6, and enable IPv4, I need to communicate with my host machine (win 7) to share files to and fro, which I do not think is possible without IPv4 under my situation.

I am more used to redhat 5x, and redhat6x, where I do not see such issues of IPv6 at all. Also a very interesting observation in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts path. It has ifcfg-enp0s3, and ifcfg-lo, there is no eth(n) . Is this is something new in fedora21, or its something having to do just with my machine? the content of ifcfg-enp0s3 is very new to me, which I haven't experienced while working with redhat.

I am in desperate need of suggestions.

Regards,

Amitesh

Disabling IPv6 wont fix any problem you have with your system.

You did enable the network when creating the VM?

Hi WildWizard,

Yes, I did, I have taken "Bridged Network" , "Allow All".

Regards,
Amitesh S

What do mean by "Allow All"

I just did a test install of the latest VB + F21 install and it works just fine (the network interface is enp0s3 also)

following are the details of VM settings for network. May be it will help more to understand the issue.

1) Enable Network Adapter --- checked
2) Adapter type : Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop(82540EM){ however, there are other options as well, I took the default).
3) Promiscuous Mode ----Allow All.
4) Attached to ---- Bridged Adapter
5) cable connected --- checked

Attached a screenshot as well

Thanks

Amitesh

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ok, the only setting I have that differs is the promiscuous setting on mine is on the default setting of deny.

It shouldn't make any difference but I would still change it to test anyway.

Also could you grab the output of "ip addr show" from the system while it's running?

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Following are the o/p

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1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default

link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_Ift forever preferred_Ift forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_Ift forever preferred_Ift forever
2: enp0s3: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 08:27:9e:52:62 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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I compared the ip addr show output with yours, and I could see that for some reason,its taking loopback ip for ipv4.

Since my ISP is DHCP, so as soon I login to my ISP portal on my win 7(host), the fedora should take Ipv4 as well from the pool as soon as its up. Just a thought, could be wrong though.

Somebody did suggest me to create two file under /etc/modprob.d as blacklist.conf, and ipv6.conf, and enter following respectively


blacklist net-pf-10
blacklist ipv6

and

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

after doing this , I could see one change in the ifconfig output

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

enp0s3: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 08:00:27:93:52:62

The change is in the "ether", earlier it used to be "inet6" in place of "ether". I really don't know if that makes any sense, or makes any difference.
++++++++++++++++++++++++

just wanted you to know.

Regards,
Amitesh

You have some sort of web portal to authenticate your connection?

Your not using a basic home router that handles it all for you?

You should switch to the NAT setting as it sounds like your net connection is not standard in any way shape or form.

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yes indeed, the NAT settings did it all, my IPv4 is now active.
Thank you for your prompt replies, as well as for your time.

Regards,
Amitesh