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gil76mg

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Registered: 2013-09-09

Posts: 28

[IPV6] Networkmanager

Hello,

i would like to have an ipv6 adress on my arch system with networkmanager. I thought that it was automatic but it doesn't.

How can i do?

Thank you.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [IPV6] Networkmanager

I know nothing about network configuration, but have a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv6
There's a section about NM.

Pse

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Registered: 2008-03-15

Posts: 415

Re: [IPV6] Networkmanager

@gil76mg, if IPv6 support is advertised through a router advertisement daemon (such as radvd), NetworkManager should pick an IPv6 address by default. I have experienced problems with dhcpcd, so it might be worth to install dhclient for IPv6 support though.

If you do not have an IPv6 prefix assigned by your ISP, you'll need to set up a tunnel through a tunnel broker. If you set the tunnel in your router and advetise the prefix assigned to you, NetworkManager will automatically assign an IPv6 address. If you do not set up the tunnel through your router, you will need to manually set up the IPv6 address, DNS and default route using any NetworkManager configuration tool (nm-applet, nm-cli, etc).