starting Fedora Server SIG
Dan Williams
dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Nov 13 15:08:29 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 09:28 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:24:15PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > It also needs IPv6 support (coming soon I hear)
> >
> > Unless it has been broken again, IPv6 'just works' in NM if you are using
> > IPv6 auto-configuration. NM ensures every interface has a link local
> > address for IPv6, so the moment any interface is up and on a network
> > with IPv6 enabled it'll automatically get suitable addressing.
>
> Agreed. I'm doing that myself. However, I believe it is
> "ship-in-the-night", i.e. NM knows nothing of the IPv6 auto-configured
> and link-local addresses. And then there's DHCPv6 and static
> addressing support which is needed.
Yes, Dave Cantrell and I have already worked on that but the support
wasn't finished for 0.7/F10. It's targeted for the next version of NM
and _must_ be present by F11.
Dan
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