https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706143 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706143#c0 Summary: nm-applet doesn't allow IPv6 static configuration with EUI-64 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: andrea@opensuse.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 in openSUSE 11.4 from what I'm able to figure out, nm-applet allow only one kind on ipv6 static configuration. It only allow "fully static" configuration where the user is supposed to provide statically, both, network prefix/length and host part of the address. that is ok, but another static configuration exist and rely on EUI-64 standard for the host part of the address. the process is quite the same as the "fully static config" with only one difference. in particular: prefix and length are statically learned (user type them) the host part is AUTOMATICALLY calculated using EUI-64 (for example on my pc: eth0 MAC address is: 00:1E:68:49:50:56 EUI-64 host part of the ipv6 address is: 21e:68ff:fe49:5056 mac address is split in half, hex value FFFE is added in the middle and the 7th binary bith is flipped , 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 in this example, HEX 00 correspond to binary 0000 0000 --> flipping the 7th bit i get 0000 0010 that revert back in 02 hex ) that means, that with actual features, i have to calculate my EUI-64 for my interface and set up my static configuration like that: 2000::1:21e:68ff:fe49:5056/64 while with EUI-64 support is will be enough to provide the much easier: 2000:0:0:1::/64 making the pc do the math for me. i hope the explanation was proper. not sure if this is a bug or an enhancement Reproducible: Always -- 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.