Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 206945
unable to select IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration
Last modified: 2016-10-04 00:28:07 EDT
IPv6 supports Stateless Address autoconfiguration. Anaconda requires that either DHCP be selected or an IP address entered for an interface when selecting "activate on boot" Should be able to "ativate on boot" without a specific IPv6 address so long as IPv4 is not selected. Possibly offer separate options depending on whether it is IPv4 or IPv6
I want to avoid adding another check box or radio button, so maybe we can get the desired functionality based on what check boxes the user has selected. Let me see if I understand this correctly. If the user checks enable IPv6 and activate on boot, but unchecks use DHCP, then IPv6 autoconf should be set in the sysconfig file? Is there ever a case where the user would have DHCP enabled for IPv6 *and* want autoconfiguration?
DHCP implies stateful configuration, so the case of both autoconfiguration *and* DHCP for IPv6 should not exist.
That's what I thought, but I just wanted to make sure. OK, so here's what I'll do. If you check 'Enable IPv6' and 'Activate on boot' but leave DHCP unchecked, I'll enable IPv6 autoconfiguration. Actually, that doesn't handle the case where you'd want DHCP for IPv4 and autoconfiguration for IPv6. Crap. OK, let me work with the UI a bit and get back to you on that.
yes - that's the rub. You need options for both IPv4 and IPv6. Co-mingling options is a pain. Other option is to leave the IPv6 autoconfiguration option as a kickstart only feature and not an interactive install feature. Would have to document it.
OK, we (me and Chris Lumens) have looked at adding this feature as a kickstart-only feature so it can be in RHEL5 GA, but it's not possible without changes to the loader. It's really too late to be adding that, so we're going to have to postpone this feature until later. I actually prefer that because I'd like to rework the network configuration user interfaces in the installer. I changed them all around for FC6 to incorporate IPv6 and I found out about address autoconfiguration too late to make any more changes. Rather than rush through and add that to the UI, I'd like to figure out if there are any other things we need to add to the manual configuration screens and get them really complete.
Let's just document what constrains will exist for RHEL5GA and work for it in 5.1
This is fixed in rawhide and continues to be improved. Independent IPv4 and IPv6 stack configuration per interface can be done in rawhide now.