Re: DHCPv6 *still* broken for F17 alpha

[Jiri Popelka <jpopelka redhat com>]

On 02/28/2012 07:00 PM, Jiri Popelka wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 06:18 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 23:27 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > > Can we please address the following bug that is almsot two years old.
> > > This bug causes long delays for people enabling IPV6, and causes
> > > Fedora to not get any connectivity on IPv6 only networks, unless you
> > > disable/reconfigure ip6tables manually
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552099
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591630
> > >
> > > Please, just add the following rules to the default ip6tables:
> > >
> > > -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 546 --sport 547 
> > > -s fe80::/10 -d fe80::/10 -j ACCEPT
> > >
> > > It would be REALLY nice if we can get this into F17 this time.
> > At least for NM I suppose I could hack this in, but it would be really
> > nice to get the IPv6 rules as default somewhere.
> >
> > Dan
> Hi,
>
> I could possibly take a look at this.

Because Thomas Woerner is still against having the dhcpv6-client port 
opened by default
I sent a patch for NM to this list a moment ago.

--
Jiri