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Bug 2095204

Summary: Different "addr-gen-mode" in newly created veth
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Mingyu Shi <mshi>
Component: nmstateAssignee: Gris Ge <fge>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Mingyu Shi <mshi>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 9.1CC: ferferna, jiji, jishi, network-qe, sfaye, till
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Description Mingyu Shi 2022-06-09 09:53:46 UTC
Description of problem:
Different "addr-gen-mode" in newly created veth

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nmstate-2.1.1-0.alpha.20220602.5accbd1.el9.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
echo "
interfaces:
  - name: veth0
    type: veth
    state: up
    veth:
      peer: veth0_ep
" | nmstatectl apply
nmstatectl show veth0
nmstatectl show veth0_ep

Actual results:
The one value of "addr-gen-mode" is eui64 and another is stable-privacy

Expected results:


Additional info:
Though the one is shown as "stable-privacy", but after the reproducer, if you go on applying such a state:
echo "
interfaces:
  - name: veth0
    type: veth
    state: up
    veth:
      peer: veth0_ep
    ipv6:
      enabled: true
  - name: veth0_ep
    type: veth
    state: up
    veth:
      peer: veth0
    ipv6:
      enabled: true
" | nmstatectl apply

The both will change to "eui64" even though you didn't mention "addr-gen-mode" in the state.

Comment 1 Mingyu Shi 2022-06-09 09:57:32 UTC
Update:

Not only for veth, the interface which is directly created by nmstate, such as dummy, bond etc, has the same result.

Comment 2 Gris Ge 2022-07-27 07:11:40 UTC
I cannot reproduce this problem on NetworkManager-1.39.10-30760.copr.56f0fb752e.el9.x86_64

But I create a PR to hide then `addr-gen-mode` when IPv6 is disabled.
https://github.com/nmstate/nmstate/pull/1983

Please try `sudo dnf copr enable packit/nmstate-nmstate-1983` to see whether we still have problem.

Comment 3 Mingyu Shi 2022-07-27 10:49:02 UTC
Tested with:
nmstate-2.1.3-0.20220727065715205036.pr1983.23.gb1ce072f.el9.x86_64
NetworkManager-1.39.8-1.el9.x86_64

When ipv6 is disabled, `addr-gen-mode` is hidden.
When ipv6 is enabled, `addr-gen-mode` is "eui64" by default

Comment 6 Mingyu Shi 2022-08-09 08:12:46 UTC
Verified with:
nmstate-2.1.3-1.el9.x86_64
NetworkManager-1.39.10-1.el9.x86_64

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 10:01:03 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 (nmstate bug fix and enhancement update), 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/RHBA-2022:7991