The term "Beta" indicating that it is a test release inviting feedback, which would include which packages users may prefer to be included. Personally I don't include avahi in my custom builds.

I am factory programming omega2s via ethernet for many years now, but my script is using IPv6 neighbour discovery, which automatically provides the full MAC address of the omegas, as the MAC is part of the IPv6 link local address. Of course that requires IPv6 to be initially enabled, which was the case so far with omega2 in factory state. @Lazar-Demin77 I hope this will remain the case also for future factory firmware…

To quote @crispyoz:

The term "Beta" indicating that it is a test release inviting feedback, which would include which packages users may prefer to be included.

The 23.05 firmware is still in beta and not yet our stable firmware. We want to give users a chance to try it out before rolling it out as the default firmware in the factory.

If you have specific improvement suggestions (or bugs to report), you can create an Issue in the OnionIoT/OpenWRT-Packages GitHub Repo. There are issue templates you can use for Improvement Suggestions/Feature Requests and Bug Reports.

You can also try building your own version of the 23.05 firmware that includes the avahi daemon. This is now very easy and takes minutes instead of hours. See the How to Build Custom Firmware article in the new documentation for the procedure.

Let me know how it goes!

@luz what's a quick way to test if IPv6 and link local is enabled in the new fw? I'm not too familiar with IPv6 - I need to study

ping6 -c 2 -i 4 -I wlp0s20f3 ff02::1

Where "wlp0s20f3" is the name of my notebook's interface and the ff02::1 is the link local "all nodes" address, like broadcast address (but that term upsets the ipv6 professors). It will respond with the ipv6 address of all nodes on link local. Here 's what's on my development network:

ping6 -c 2 -i 4 -I wlp0s20f3 ff02::1 
ping6: Warning: source address might be selected on device other than: wlp0s20f3
PING ff02::1 (ff02::1) from :: wlp0s20f3: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fe80::b06d:1d07:966:4c65%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.160 ms
64 bytes from fe80::feec:daff:fe31:e1c6%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.94 ms
64 bytes from fe80::8bb4:297b:abb:7968%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.27 ms
64 bytes from fe80::46d9:e7ff:feb8:53a7%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.54 ms
64 bytes from fe80::6ad7:9aff:fe02:b2b8%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.58 ms
64 bytes from fe80::c251:7eff:fe5d:7c73%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.58 ms
64 bytes from fe80::76ac:b9ff:fe4e:29db%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.58 ms
64 bytes from fe80::b6a3:82ff:fe4b:20b6%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.58 ms
64 bytes from fe80::f64d:30ff:fe6b:8b4a%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.59 ms
64 bytes from fe80::188a:822d:9b56:843c%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.93 ms
64 bytes from fe80::42a3:6bff:fec4:1d8e%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.24 ms
64 bytes from fe80::d8f4:6b58:8b5e:cd9f%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=73.7 ms
64 bytes from fe80::a2dc:4ff:fe2a:8411%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=181 ms
64 bytes from fe80::a91:15ff:fefe:8897%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=304 ms
64 bytes from fe80::10b7:9243:cdf4:873e%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=304 ms
64 bytes from fe80::b6fb:e4ff:fec9:3b8%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=308 ms
64 bytes from fe80::f29f:c2ff:fec5:9ab2%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=356 ms
64 bytes from fe80::f29f:c2ff:fe09:fe1%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=878 ms
64 bytes from fe80::b06d:1d07:966:4c65%wlp0s20f3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.081 ms

--- ff02::1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, +17 duplicates, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.081/128.421/877.572/217.804 ms

You can see they all start with "fe80" which indicates these addresses are created by the Stateless Auto Address Configuration function of ipv6 (SLACC). So even if you set an ipv6 address on an interface ipv6 will still create the link local address.

There is a lot to ipv6, but this is one of the nice little features.