Bug 1009776 - Disabling ipv6 has no effect
Summary: Disabling ipv6 has no effect
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 982740
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-19 07:02 UTC by Peter Backes
Modified: 2014-04-15 13:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-04-15 13:28:10 UTC
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Description Peter Backes 2013-09-19 07:02:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
Chosing "Ignore" as the method under "IPv6 Settings" for some NetworkManager connection apparently has no effect at all. The interface still acquires both a link local and a global IPv6 address.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.9.8.2-8.git20130709.fc19.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
set "Method" to "Ignore" under "IPv6 Settings" while editing some NetworkManager connection.

Actual results:
ifconfig shows two inet6 addrs, one link-local, one global.

Expected results:
ifconfig doesn't show any ipv6 enabled for the device in question.

Additional info:
This was observed with wrt610n linksys router broken ipv6 (aka the "Vista Premium" setting, or security bug, whatever you like to call it).

See also http://askubuntu.com/questions/77146/ipv6-still-used-even-network-manager-ipv6-set-to-ignore
Comment 1 Charles R. Anderson 2014-04-15 13:28:10 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 982740 ***
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