RE: v6 only networks broken?
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:53 -0800, Lai, Weiwen wrote: Does nm currently support both stateful and stateless ipv6 address auto configurations? Mentioned below is that the ipv6 infratructure is already done for nm, I wonder what is missing in ipv6 implementation with nm 0.7 RC2 release? I am mostly interested in wired networks. NM 0.7 does not support IPv6 configuration at this time, and further work is necessary. _Some_ of the infrastructure is present, but by no means all of it. IPv6 support is a target for the next development cycle of NetworkManager. dan What is the expected time frame for this full ipv6 feature delivery? Thanks, Weiwen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Williams Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:46 AM To: Paul Wouters Cc: networkmanager-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: v6 only networks broken? On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 02:40 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: hi, I am not sure if someelse else at IETF already raised this, but NM does not work on IPv6 only networks. After association on the wifi, it disassociates with could not obtain an address. We suspect because it did not get an ipv4 ip address via dhcp, though we did get an ipv6 address. Correct; NM won't (yet) try to get IPv6 addresses, though we have some infrastructure to handle IPv6 via LL, router advertisements, and DHCP +/- information only mode, it's not all there. Full IPv6 support will be added in the near future and is a major target for post 0.7 development. NM should not stomp on IPv6 LL addresses that get assigned to the interface however. If it does, it's a bug. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: v6 only networks broken?
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:56 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Dan Williams wrote: NM should not stomp on IPv6 LL addresses that get assigned to the interface however. If it does, it's a bug. It disassociates from the wifi network. Yes, because you don't get an IPv4 address. If you use static IP for that network, you'll get assigned an IPv6LL address and NM won't touch it. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
RE: v6 only networks broken?
Does nm currently support both stateful and stateless ipv6 address auto configurations? Mentioned below is that the ipv6 infratructure is already done for nm, I wonder what is missing in ipv6 implementation with nm 0.7 RC2 release? I am mostly interested in wired networks. What is the expected time frame for this full ipv6 feature delivery? Thanks, Weiwen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Williams Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:46 AM To: Paul Wouters Cc: networkmanager-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: v6 only networks broken? On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 02:40 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: hi, I am not sure if someelse else at IETF already raised this, but NM does not work on IPv6 only networks. After association on the wifi, it disassociates with could not obtain an address. We suspect because it did not get an ipv4 ip address via dhcp, though we did get an ipv6 address. Correct; NM won't (yet) try to get IPv6 addresses, though we have some infrastructure to handle IPv6 via LL, router advertisements, and DHCP +/- information only mode, it's not all there. Full IPv6 support will be added in the near future and is a major target for post 0.7 development. NM should not stomp on IPv6 LL addresses that get assigned to the interface however. If it does, it's a bug. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: v6 only networks broken?
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 02:40 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: hi, I am not sure if someelse else at IETF already raised this, but NM does not work on IPv6 only networks. After association on the wifi, it disassociates with could not obtain an address. We suspect because it did not get an ipv4 ip address via dhcp, though we did get an ipv6 address. Correct; NM won't (yet) try to get IPv6 addresses, though we have some infrastructure to handle IPv6 via LL, router advertisements, and DHCP +/- information only mode, it's not all there. Full IPv6 support will be added in the near future and is a major target for post 0.7 development. NM should not stomp on IPv6 LL addresses that get assigned to the interface however. If it does, it's a bug. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: v6 only networks broken?
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Dan Williams wrote: NM should not stomp on IPv6 LL addresses that get assigned to the interface however. If it does, it's a bug. It disassociates from the wifi network. Paul ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
