Your message dated Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:18:01 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#697944: ifupdown: inet6 manual does not work
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Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7.5
Severity: normal
The manual method for IPv6 does not work. When I try to use it, the
interface still comes up with an IPv6 link-local address and, if there
is an IPv6 router and autoconf has not previously been disabled, an
autoconf address. When 'inet6 manual' is specified, at the very least
autoconf should be disabled, as 'inet6 static' does by default. Perhaps
IPv6 should even be completely disabled for that interface.
(IMAO, this should also have been the default when there is no inet6
stanza for the interface. However, I do appreciate that changing this
now would (a) slow IPv6 adoption, and (b) break existing installations.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500,
'oldstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.9
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-34
ii iproute 20120521-3
ii libc6 2.13-37
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8
ifupdown recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u2
ii net-tools 1.60-24.2
ii ppp 2.4.5-5.1+b1
pn rdnssd <none>
-- no debconf information
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tag 697944 wontfix
thanks
Hello,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:58:30 +0000
Tim Bagot <[email protected]> wrote:
> The manual method for IPv6 does not work. When I try to use it, the
> interface still comes up with an IPv6 link-local address and, if there
> is an IPv6 router and autoconf has not previously been disabled, an
> autoconf address. When 'inet6 manual' is specified, at the very least
> autoconf should be disabled, as 'inet6 static' does by default.
> Perhaps IPv6 should even be completely disabled for that interface.
Well, I disagree. Manual means *nothing* is done, not even SLAAC
disabled.
> (IMAO, this should also have been the default when there is no inet6
> stanza for the interface. However, I do appreciate that changing this
> now would (a) slow IPv6 adoption, and (b) break existing
> installations.)
That's a different topic, actually, and on this regard I disagree as
well. There's nothing wrong in having SLAAC enabled by default if it's
not disabled explicitly. Also, in my opinion, doing so may slow down
IPv6 deployment, as it would require users to manually enable it (as
it is now, it's enough to configure just the router).
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WBR, Andrew
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