RE: v6 only networks broken?

["Lai, Weiwen" <Weiwen Lai xerox com>]

Does nm currently support both stateful and stateless ipv6 address auto
configurations? Mentioned below is that the ipv6 infratructure is
already done for nm, I wonder what is missing in ipv6 implementation
with nm 0.7 RC2 release? I am mostly interested in wired networks.

What is the expected time frame for this full ipv6 feature delivery?

Thanks,
Weiwen


-----Original Message-----
From: networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Dan Williams
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:46 AM
To: Paul Wouters
Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: v6 only networks broken?

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 02:40 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I am not sure if someelse else at IETF already raised this, but NM 
> does not work on IPv6 only networks. After association on the wifi, it

> disassociates with "could not obtain an address". We suspect because 
> it did not get an ipv4 ip address via dhcp, though we did get an ipv6 
> address.

Correct; NM won't (yet) try to get IPv6 addresses, though we have some
infrastructure to handle IPv6 via LL, router advertisements, and DHCP
+/- information only mode, it's not all there.  Full IPv6 support will
be added in the near future and is a major target for post 0.7
development.

NM should not stomp on IPv6 LL addresses that get assigned to the
interface however.  If it does, it's a bug.

Dan

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