On 09.05.2022 03:06, James Knott wrote:
I run OpenSUSE 15.3 on a notebook computer, with network manager for configuring IP. One thing I've noticed is there do not appear to be any persistent IPv6 addresses. Normally, with SLAAC, there is 1 persistent address, based on either the MAC address or a random number. There can then be up to 7 privacy addresses, depending on how long the computer has been running. Without a persistent address, DNS can't be used to reach it. Is it possible to enable a persistent address with the network manager?
tnx jk
This is ipv6.ip6-privacy connection property. If it is not set explicitly, it defaults to whatever kernel configuration is (.../use_tempaddr). This may or may not be exposed by frontend and different frontends may default to different values. I am not familiar with current KDE code, but briefly looking in plasma-nm-applet git, this setting is exposed and default is to use default (pun unintended), i.e. kernel setting.