Bug 1256822

Summary: [RFE] support ipv6 shared connections
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Vladimir Benes <vbenes>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lrintel>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.1CC: aloughla, atragler, bgalvani, dcbw, fgiudici, kzhang, lrintel, mleitner, rkhan, sukulkar, thaller
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature
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Fixed In Version: NetworkManager-1.8.0-0.2.git20170215.1d40c5f4.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2017-08-01 09:17:07 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1340509, 1359266, 1359269    
Bug Blocks: 1301628, 1313485    

Description Vladimir Benes 2015-08-25 14:12:29 UTC 
Description of problem:
upping connection with ipv6 shared enabled is not supported:
Error: Connection activation failed: Sharing IPv6 connections is not supported yet.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-1.0.4-9.el7.ppc64le

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.nmcli connection add type ethernet con-name ethie ifname eth1
2.nmcli connection edit id ethie
3.set ipv6.method shared
4.save
5.quit
6.nmcli connection up id ethie 

Actual results:
Error: Connection activation failed: Sharing IPv6 connections is not supported yet.

Expected results:
dnsmasq running with ipv6 ra functionality enabled. connection upped.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Beniamino Galvani 2015-08-25 14:47:06 UTC 
There are some proposals for this feature in upstream bug:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593815
Comment 3 Lubomir Rintel 2016-06-21 15:00:44 UTC 
Looks like the most straightforward way to get the functionality is the NDP proxying. However the kernel part is not good enough at this point :(

Adding a blocker bug.
Comment 4 Lubomir Rintel 2016-11-09 17:08:11 UTC 
Merged upstream ecc6040cd8ecce37685c8433810be16ff35096da
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 09:17:07 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2299