Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 761558] Re: Default to enabling IPv6 addresses, but set to optional to bring up devices

2012-02-28 Thread Tore Anderson
Hi Mathieu, > On dual-stack networks, which remains the norm rather than ipv6-only so far, The norm so far is without question IPv4-only, which outnumbers anything including IPv6 by an enormous amount. According to Google, IPv4-only is the case for about 99.5% of users world-wide (see http://www.

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 761558] Re: Default to enabling IPv6 addresses, but set to optional to bring up devices

2012-02-25 Thread Tore Anderson
* Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre > That's an option that can be changed by the user, so irrelevant to > supporting IPv6 networks out of the box. «Plug and Play» is important for most users. > I don't think there are enough IPv6-only networks to warrant shipping > IPv4 as optional by default just yet,

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 761558] Re: Default to enabling IPv6 addresses, but set to optional to bring up devices

2011-08-30 Thread Tore Anderson
> I finally could verify/reproduce the issues you were seeing with > connections initially never start DHCPv6 even if they are showing "Auto" > for the method -- there is another part of network-manager which uses > the assumption that a missing method (e.g. for a new device connection, > which typ