Re: DHCPv6 support in Network Manager isn't RFC compliant

["Derek Atkins" <derek ihtfp com>]

On Thu, July 28, 2011 5:50 pm, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Stéphane Graber wrote:
>
>> As I'm not subscribed to this mailing-list, I'd appreciate it if you
>> could Cc me on your replies. Thanks
>>
>>
>> I've recently been spending quite a bit of time testing Network
>> Manager's IPv6 support on Ubuntu as part of our ongoing effort of
>> getting full IPv6 support for Oneiric.
>>
>> It's really looking good and Network Manager does a great job of
>> handling all the possible use cases I have, except one small detail.
>
> [ DUID issue ]
>
> Actually, I found at IETF81 this week that my network manager on Fedora-14
> failed to connect to the IETF-v6only network.

I've found that (historically) NM doesn't handle the IETF network well at
all.  In particular it has issues due to "too many APs".  I've had many
problems on the IETF networks in years past.  I'm not in QC this week so I
cannot test it this time.

> Paul

-derek

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