Re: [PATCH] firewall-manager: allow dhcpv6-client service

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig nussel suse de>]

Jiri Popelka wrote:
> On 03/07/2012 10:26 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>> Jiri Popelka wrote:
>>> Tell firewall to allow dhcpv6-client service for the given zone prior
>>> to starting dhcpv6 client. We don't need to wait for the response
>> That looks odd to me. Why doesn't the zone config already allow dhcpv6
>> by default?
> 
> That depends on what zone the interface belongs to.
> If it's part of zone where the dhcpv6 is allowed by default (like "home" or "work" zone) then this is of course not needed.
> But the default zone is "public" where's at the moment only ssh service allowed.

Uh, ssh would probably be the last thing I'd allow in the public zone by
default :-)
So the zone intentionally does not allow ipv6. What sense does that make
if NM can add (and will) it anyways then?

cu
Ludwig

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