starting Fedora Server SIG

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Thu Nov 13 14:28:17 UTC 2008


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.




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