Enabling nanny does not help. It only preserves the IPv4 lease across restarts of wickedd.service but still drops the IPv6 lease. Jun 20 11:46:26 hawking systemd[1]: Starting wicked network management service daemon... Jun 20 11:46:26 hawking systemd[1]: Started wicked network management service daemon. Jun 20 11:46:27 hawking wickedd[19792]: route ipv4 0.0.0.0/0 via 10.160.255.254 dev br0 type unicast table main scope universe protocol dhcp covered by a ipv4:dhcp lease br0 up link: #33, state up, mtu 1500 type: bridge config: compat:suse:/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-br0 leases: ipv4 dhcp granted leases: ipv6 dhcp requesting addr: ipv4 10.160.4.0/16 [dhcp] addr: ipv6 2620:113:80c0:8080:10:160:4:0/64 addr: ipv6 2620:113:80c0:8080:92b1:1cff:fe69:ddc/64 addr: ipv6 fd67:22d1:509b:1:92b1:1cff:fe69:ddc/64 route: ipv4 default via 10.160.255.254 route: ipv6 default via fe80::1 Only a full wicked restart restores the network.