On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:15:28PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:12:53AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:49 +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > > > I'd like to know what work is needed to get some IPv6 support in > > > NetworkManager. > > > > > > My ISP has IPv6 support, it works like this: > > > IP address configuration and routing is automatic (done via router > > > advertisement) > > > > Right; you'll get the kernel-assigned LL address, and I believe a > > hashed-MAC IPv6 address based on the IPv6 routing prefix that the router > > advertises. The kernel won't assign the routable IPv6 address until NM > > has assigned the LL IPv6 address manually (which NM does). > > > > By the way, while debugging the privacy extension for stateless > configuration, I was puzzled that the interface was configured twice. > > >From what I've figured out, the kernel configure the interface by itself > (once the interface is up), maybe the problem was for interfaces which > are not devices (but from the code it seems it should work for tunnels) ?
The kernel does everything that's needed to setup your ipv6 addresses. The Link-local address is generated from your ethernet mac and the necessary duplicate detection is done. The same goes for the global address as soon as you receive a router advertisement. The only thing userspace has to do is to setup nameserver information basically. Sjoerd -- Don't make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
