https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786133 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786133#c0 Summary: Improved support for IPv6 in traditional network setup Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 12.3 Milestone 0 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SUSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: f.de.kruijf@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 In the setup of the traditional network with ifup for IPv6 using DHCP, both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 are enabled. However for IPv6 the router advertises whether DHCP6 is available and for what in the so-called M and O bits. In my test case I disabled the DHCP6 server in the router, which means that both the O and M bits are zero, however DHCP version 6 was enabled in the setup. The result was that the interface did not get a global IPv6 address, only a link-local address. Only after disabling DHCP version 6 from the interface I got this global address. However enabling the DHCPv6 server in the router, I can choose that only the O bit will enabled, which means that the interface does not get the global IP address from the DHCPv6 server, but only the default gateway and/or the DNS address(es). The global IP address should be derived from Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC). Deriving the address from SLAAC is further dependent on the value of the use_tempaddr, either 0, 1 or 2. Furthermore the current choice is to have fixed addresses, both for IPv4 and IPv6, or using DHCP for both. However, having a fixed IPv6 address one can still use DHCPv6 to get the default gateway and/or the DNS address(es). In fact it would be better to have the fixed IPv6 address without the prefix which comes from the router advertisement. In my view this type of configuration should be present in this YaST module. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- 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.