DHCPv6 *still* broken for F17 alpha

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Tue Feb 28 05:18:41 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 23:27 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> Can we please address the following bug that is almsot two years old.
> This bug causes long delays for people enabling IPV6, and causes
> Fedora to not get any connectivity on IPv6 only networks, unless you
> disable/reconfigure ip6tables manually
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552099
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591630
> 
> Please, just add the following rules to the default ip6tables:
> 
> -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 546 --sport 547 -s fe80::/10 -d fe80::/10 -j ACCEPT
> 
> It would be REALLY nice if we can get this into F17 this time.

At least for NM I suppose I could hack this in, but it would be really
nice to get the IPv6 rules as default somewhere.

Dan



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