Comment 2 for bug 1956213

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Wido den Hollander (wido) wrote :

Thank you for the response!

ii freeipmi-common 1.6.4-3ubuntu1.1 all GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - common files
ii freeipmi-tools 1.6.4-3ubuntu1.1 amd64 GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - tools
ii libfreeipmi17 1.6.4-3ubuntu1.1 amd64 GNU IPMI - libraries

In this case it's a Dell R6515 server where the iDRAC and I can confirm that the iDRAC has IPv6 connectivity.

Through the WebUI of the iDRAC we can obtain the IPv6 address or calculate the address based on the MAC of the iDRAC.

This seems like a bug in freeipmi under Ubuntu 20.04