From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
To: iwd@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: move EnableIPv6 under Network
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:35:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bcc7986-92ab-752a-9e5c-0e698ed44e9d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201227133425.2894.28091@ml01.vlan13.01.org>
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Hi,
On 12/27/20 7:34 AM, flokli(a)flokli.de wrote:
> Last time I checked, IPv6 RA weren't supported yet. Is this still the case? Also, why does it default to `false`?
Correct, IPV6 RAs are not yet supported. And this is the reason why IPV6 is
disabled by default.
In iwd versions prior to 1.10 you could let iwd setup IPv4 aspects (using
DHCPv4) and let the kernel handle RAs. But, really, such a setup was broken
because:
- kernel didn't know anything about route metrics to be used by iwd
- details obtained from RAs, like DNS, host names, etc were not configured
- Stateful (DHCPv6) configurations didn't work
Certain setups may have appeared to work, but it was just pure luck. Given the
above, and the fact that iwd's IPv6 support is not yet complete, the safest
option was to disable it by default.
Regards,
-Denis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-18 15:38 [PATCH] doc: move EnableIPv6 under Network Carlo Abelli
2020-12-22 15:37 ` Denis Kenzior
2020-12-27 13:34 ` flokli
2020-12-30 17:35 ` Denis Kenzior [this message]
2020-12-30 18:25 ` KeithG
2020-12-30 18:29 ` Denis Kenzior
2020-12-31 1:17 ` KeithG
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