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

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
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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