[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#611742: n-m activates IPv6 autoconf despite IPv6 Mathod "ignore"

Michael Goetze mgoetze at mgoetze.net
Tue Feb 1 15:58:52 UTC 2011


Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-6

Before: network-manager and nm-applet are running, but no networks are
connected.

% sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf
net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf = 0
% sysctl net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.autoconf
error: "net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.autoconf" is an unknown key
% ip -6 r
% ip -6 a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Action: I connect to a wireless network via nm-applet. In the
configuration of this network, the IPv6 Configuration Method is "Ignore".

After: I have a bunch of non-working IPv6 routes from stupid Apple
devices, e.g.

% sysctl net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.autoconf = 1
net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.autoconf = 1
% ip -6 a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
    inet6 2002:865f:5ba7:b:224:d6ff:fe87:2320/64 scope global dynamic
       valid_lft 7199sec preferred_lft 1799sec
    inet6 2002:865f:5f26:c:224:d6ff:fe87:2320/64 scope global dynamic
       valid_lft 2591973sec preferred_lft 604773sec
    inet6 fec0::b:224:d6ff:fe87:2320/64 scope site dynamic
       valid_lft 7199sec preferred_lft 1799sec
    inet6 fec0::c:224:d6ff:fe87:2320/64 scope site dynamic
       valid_lft 2591973sec preferred_lft 604773sec
    inet6 fe80::224:d6ff:fe87:2320/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
% ip -6 r
2002:865f:5ba7:b::/64 dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric 256  expires
7200sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
2002:865f:5f26:c::/64 dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric 256  expires
2592132sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
fe80::/64 dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440
hoplimit 4294967295
fec0:0:0:b::/64 dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric 256  expires 7200sec mtu
1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
fec0:0:0:c::/64 dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric 256  expires 2592132sec
mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
default via fe80::90c7:bc44:45e6:fbe7 dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric
1024  expires 1770sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295
default via fe80::9509:ba5a:7dd:f52c dev wlan0  proto kernel  metric
1024  expires 7200sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295

Basically I am forced to manually disable autoconf and flush IPv6 routes
after every connection to this network.





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