https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803050 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803050#c0 Summary: Issues with settings for IPv6 in NetworkManager Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: RC 1 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SUSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: f.de.kruijf@gmail.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 In the UI for NetworkManager one can change some settings in connection with automatic generation of the host part of the IPv6 address. There are 3 settings. The default is that this part is generated from the MAC address of the interface. This is not the recommended way, instead this part should be generated randomly and also used as the default source address. Changing this parameter in the UI and pressing OK brings up a hidden prompt for the root password. This prompt should pop-up more prominently. After that the status of the connection shows a restart of that connection. However one need to reboot to make the change effective. There is no warning that this is necessary as is/was present when enabling or disabling IPv6 in the network module of YaST2. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Observe the value in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/use_tempaddr (standard 0) 2. Change the parameter after Privacy Extensions: e.g. to Enabled (prefer temporary addresses) and activate it (obviously this must be a change) 3. Observe the value in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/use_tempaddr should be changed to 2, however it has not changed 3. reboot 4 Observe the value in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/use_tempaddr (it should now show 2) Expected Results: At least a warning that the system must be rebooted before the change takes effect. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.