[TriLUG] IPv6 workshop

Jonathan Woodbury jpwoodbu at mybox.org
Wed May 18 16:11:43 EDT 2011


I didn't read the whole thread, but it sounds like you're using radvd or
something like it to auto configure IPv6 addresses on your network.  If so,
is /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/$IFACE/autoconf set to 1 for the interface that
doesn't want to auto-configure?

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> I enabled and toggled that setting several times for this connection.
> And funny enough, when using a USB WiFi adapter on the same connection
> (both cards are WiFi), it picked up the IPv6 address right away.
>
> Igor
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> >> Has anyone experienced this and is there a cure?
> >
> > I noticed that I had to go into the NetworkManager applet and
> > "edit connections", select the current connection and specifically
> > enable IPv6 for it.  I was wondering if there were some global
> > setting for "always get an IPv6, if available, you dolt", but
> > did not dig into it much.
> >
> > This will be one of my questions one week from today at the
> > IPv6 workshop.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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