Re: IPv6 support

[Benoit Boissinot <bboissin+networkmanager gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:50:37PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:41:44PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Or maybe the kernel does it automagically now for some reason if you poke
> > something in sysfs?
> 
> I've been using ipv6 since 2001 and the kernel has always done things
> automagically wrt. autoconfiguration unless you specifically turn it off.

I've just been playing with my wired interface (even rmmod'ing the
driver to be sure), and I confirm that with nm disabled:

ip link set eth0 down ; ip link set eth0 up

is sufficient to get an ipv6 LL address.

regards,

Benoit

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