Hi Jocef, On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:03:36PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 12:37 PM, Eloy Paris wrote: > > >>Usually, the default gateway comes via the Router-Advertisements. > >> > >> > >>I would rather expect that you choose > >> > >> "Automatic", > >> > >>which will use RA + DHCP6 (if the RouterAdvertisements indicate to > >>use DHCP). > >> > >>"Automatic, DHCP only" will not use RA at all. > > > >I see. I had been using "Automatic, DHCP only" because I thought that > >when using "Automatic" nothing happened (no global IP address was > >obtained). However, I just tried and it worked, and a default IPv6 > >route was even installed. > > > >I realize now that it is not that nothing happened but that things > >took a long time (a couple of minutes) to happen -- first, there was > >a delay to get an IPv6 address, and then there was a delay (after > >the interface had a global IPv6 address) to see the default route > >installed. > > > >Are these delays normal; do they depend on the frequency of router > >advertisements? If so, can NM not elicit a router advertisements by > >sending a router solicitation? If that is what is supposed to happen > >then I don't understand the delays. In contrast, IPv4 configuration > >is immediate. > > Part of the problem is NM groups together route discovery and SLAAC, > this makes it unusable for us in our ipv6 only clusters. I'm in > the process of fixing this now so you can still have proper route > discovery and use dhcpv6 or static addressing and then you'll get the > immediate ipv6 configuration. Thanks, That'd be nice; I look forward to this in a future NM release. Cheers, Eloy Paris.- _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
