474852 – Setting config_*="null" for a NIC in conf.d/net does not prevent it from receiving an ipv6 address

Bug 474852 - Setting config_*="null" for a NIC in conf.d/net does not prevent it from receiving an ipv6 address

Summary: Setting config_*="null" for a NIC in conf.d/net does not prevent it from rece...

Status:	IN_PROGRESS

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	netifrc (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	netifrc Team

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Reported:	2013-06-26 10:06 UTC by wxy
Modified:	2013-08-28 17:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description wxy 2013-06-26 10:06:51 UTC

This repros until ipv6 support is manually disabled via
echo '1' > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/disable_ipv6

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2013-08-21 19:22:07 UTC

I guess the question here is, should setting config_iface="null" prevent
us from getting an ipv6 address from the kernel, or does it just mean we
do not do anything special for this interface in terms of configuration?

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2013-08-28 17:05:50 UTC

I think we should update the documentation to say that we won't add any address, but will not block any addresses added by other means, including the kernel.