Installer: no DHCP and no re0 if you don't enable IPV6

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randux

I noticed during several installs of 7.1-RELEASE (i386 and AMD64) if you say "no" to "Do you want to try to configure IPV6" then your IPV4 stuff will not work and you have to manually configure it which is a PITA the first few dozen times until you remember what you did on your old/missing system.

If you say "yes" to IPV6 then the installer sets up DHCP and everything's fine.
 
This Bug Is Still Present

I'm installing 8.0-RC2-amd64. Selecting the default "No" to the question about trying IPv6 will leave you without an auto-configured nic. Selecting "Yes" to the question will lead to a successfully auto-configured nic. This must be a bug, I'd imagine (a simple, silly one at that). And almost a year later, it still hasn't been resolved :-( Thankfully though, this thread explains how to resolve this situation.
 
Ah, that might explain countless unsuccessful attemtps to use DHCP and fetch the installation using FTP ...
 
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