Re: Disabling ip4 and IPV6 on F20RC1

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert M. Albrecht" <lists romal de>
> To: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:37:16 AM
> Subject: Disabling ip4 and IPV6 on F20RC1
>
> Hi,
>
> my system has a built in ethernet interface wich is working perfectly
> fine on IPV4 and IPV6.
>
> I added a second interface via usb for wiresharking some stuff (this way
> I don't get my own traffic in the packet dumps).
>
> I don't want or need an IP-stack on this second interface.
>
> In network manager there is on top of the IPV4 and IPV6 config pages an
> on/off button.

Looks like a GUI problems. For more details on what's possible with NetworkManager (plus some additional 
ideas), see:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Networking/Ideas/NetworkManagerMethods#IPv4.2FIPv6_methods_broken_down_to_features

> For IPV4 this buttons seems to have no effect at all. It's off-position
> is not even saved when applying or closing the dialog.
>
> For IPV6 something happens. All addresses except local link are deleted,
> no DNS and routing.
>
> But if link local still remains where is the difference between
> disabling IPV6 or enabling and choosing link local configuration only ?

In released versions of NetworkManager, there isn't any possibility to disable IPv6 link-local addresses. In 
fact it's not properly supported even in the kernel.

Cheers,

Pavel

> Did I missunderstand the gui and the on/off buttons have some other
> effect ? Or is it simply broken ?
>
> cu romal
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