>> 
>> But can you not just configure ipv6.dhcp-send-hostname and ipv6.dhcp-
>> hostname:
>> 
>>  nmcli connection modify $NAME ipv6.dhcp-send-hostname yes \
>>    ipv6.dhcp-hostname wibble.example.com <http://wibble.example.com/>
> Well that was how I was setting ipv6.dhcp-hostname, but after systemctl 
> restart NetworkManager, it had been reset to '—‘. Now, I must have changed 
> something, as it doesn’t change the value at all!

Hmm. that was interesting. When I tried the nmcli command with $NAME of System\ 
eth0 (the name of the connection), I found that I was getting two 
ipv6.dhcp-hostname values.  I’ve now got a new configuration file: 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-System_eth0 (!)

I’m not very familiar with how NM is supposed to translate to/from underlying 
networking implementations (e.g. the redhat ifcf-* files + networking-scripts). 
I’d guess that NM abstracts the different models to its own object model and 
reads/writes to the underlying configuration files + some files of its own. I 
can see it being a challenge keeping both models consistent as the data must be 
round-tripped (e.g. read from fileX, modify, write back into the correct part 
of fileX.), and sometimes data elements may be ignored (so their fate may be 
ambiguous).

Should I report a bug for the above behaviour (assuming that I can get a 
repeatable approach)?

Tim

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