Bug 300571

Summary: Network Connections does not offer IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration
Product: [Unmaintained] Network Management Reporter: mathew <meta>
Component: generalAssignee: Lamarque V. Souza <lamarque>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description mathew 2012-05-24 19:57:54 UTC 
Brand new install of Kubuntu 12.04, went to set up my wireless network.

On the IPv6 Address tab, I am given the following options:

Disabled
Automatic (DHCP)
Automatic (DHCP) address only
Manual
Link-Local
Shared

None of these are correct for my network. For my network, I use the normal IPv6 address allocation option, which is IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC).

So there should be an option added:

Automatic (SLAAC)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a new network connection in System Settings.
2. Go to IPv6 tab.
3. Examine available options.
Actual Results:  
I decided I'd go without IPv6 for the time being, and chose "Disabled". However, when I go to the command line and enter   ip addr   I discover that IPv6 isn't disabled; it has been configured via SLAAC and has a 2002:: address.

Expected Results:  
Expected option for stateless autoconfiguration of IPv6 address.

Expected "Disabled" to actually disable IPv6.
Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-05-24 20:41:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 297424 ***