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[Tore Anderson <tore@xxxxxx>]

> 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 typically doesn't necessarily have an associated file on the
> filesystem) means "Ignore", which is obviously false at this point.

I think patch is what you need (maybe the last chunk only):

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-
list/2011-August/msg00063.html

> I also noted that there is such a check in nm-applet which would write
> "Ignore" and then include the assigned IPv6 addresses if the above is
> fixed, so now we have two separate tasks for network-manager and
> network-manager-applet. I'm working on both, and they should be fixed
> shortly.

Ok, thanks! I haven't looked into the GUI stuff at all.

> As for your crash, please try to reproduce it with apport enabled. You
> should see a file in /var/crash about this crash; we'd need this opened
> as a separate bug in order to be able to debug what is causing it. This
> is just so we can track each issue separately and know what is fixed and
> what isn't.

I'll do my best, but I can't promise you I find the time before next
week, I'm going away from Friday, and I've got a really busy schedule
today and tomorrow.

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/761558

Title:
  Default to enabling IPv6 addresses, but set to optional to bring up
  devices

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: network-manager

  Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 does not support IPv6 networks out of the box. It
  really should. (Microsoft Windows have had this support since Vista.)

  The remaining IPv4 addresses are depleting fast - as of yesterday,
  there are no more IPv4 addresses to be had in the Asia-Pacific region,
  a situation which soon will happen in Europe and North America too -
  likely before the end of the year.

  It is therefore urgent that IPv6 networks are supported out of the box
  - average end users cannot be expected to jump through hoops in order
  to get a working network connection. Fortunately, all the necessary
  support is found in the NetworkManager source code - it is just a
  matter of changing the defaults so that both IPv4 and IPv6 networks
  are supported equally well, as well as hybrid IPv4+IPv6 dual-stack
  networks. These are the defaults that need to change in the standard
  connection profile:

  Require IPv4 addressing for this connection to complete: OFF
  IPv6 Method: Automatic
  Require IPv6 addressing for this connection to complete: OFF

  I've attached a log from when I first activated a connection to a IPv6
  wireless network (which failed), and then another attempt after having
  modified these settings (which succeeded).

  Tore

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