On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 06:25:09PM -0400, Eloy Paris wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 04:43:55PM -0400, Stuart Gathman wrote:
> 
> > On 10/20/2015 02:28 PM, Eloy Paris wrote:
> >
> > >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.
> >
> > I just set radvd frequency to 10 secs. Still not "instant", but fast
> > enough for government work, and not too much overhead.
> 
> That's a good "workaround". Another one is to use SLAAC, which seems
> to result in instantaneous configuration under NM. The problem is on
> corporate network environments where the IT folks have configured the
> network for stateful configuration (DHCPv6) -- in those environments it
> is not possible for a regular employee (my case, for example) to change
> the frequency of RA messages, or to move to SLACC from DHCPv6.

NetworkManager SHOULD send a Router Solicitation when the network
interface comes up, and the router should respond with a Router
Advertisement quickly.  I don't know if that is what happens.
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