Re: Additional IPv6 address

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:54 +0300, Eugene Crosser wrote:
> Once again.
> After some investigation, it turns out to be *one* problem here, the
> rest are "induced". The one problem is: when you edit a connection in
> the Gnome "Network Connections" applet, and set "Available to all users"
> checkbox *plus* set "Method" to "Manual" in "IPv6 Settings", once you
> hit "Apply", the connection disappears from the list altogether!

The disconnect behavior is expected to some degree, because the
connection is moving between domains.  That's sub-optimal and we can
possibly work around that in NetworkManager.

Can you provide some logs from /var/log/daemon.log or /var/log/messages
like Jirka asked for?  That may give us a clue as to why it's failing to
be correctly moved from user -> system.

Dan

> Is the maintainer of "Network Connections" applet on this list? Can
> anyone confirm that the problem exists for them?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Eugene Crosser wrote:
> > Sorry if this has been discussed already, I did only a cursory search,
> > and did not find the answer...
> > 
> > I am running stock karmic/gnome,
> > network-manager: 0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1
> > 
> > My router has /56 IPv6 prefix assigned, and radvd running. If "IPv6
> > Settings" for the Ethernet connection on the karmic machine are set to
> > "Ignore", I get automatically allocated v6 address on the interface,
> > based on prefix and MAC, and v4 address got by DHCP. Now, I want to add
> > another IPv6 address to the interface, not based on MAC. If I do it with
> > 'ifconfig', it works. So far, everything is all right.
> > 
> > Now, I try to add that additional address via networkmanager applet.
> > When I select "Method: Manual" and add the address, first of all, it is
> > not always saved! Next time I run the applet, it may or may not be
> > there. Second, when I hit "Apply", the connection instantly goes down,
> > and may or may not come up again. Then, even if it did come up, it comes
> > down after some time (that means, both v4 and v6 are down).
> > 
> > Is it a known problem or an error on my side? If not, I will collect
> > more information for debugging.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Eugene
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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