Idea #1622: IPv6 support

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Written by ptitgnu the 29 Feb 08 at 17:54. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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I think that we must have a GUI for ipv6 configuration.
Other distributions like Fedora or OpenSUSE, OSX and even MS Vista already have it. IPv4 is dying, ISP's are beginning to distribute IPv6 adresses for 2~3 years and DNS root servers have recently switch to v6 too.
Ubuntu should be ready for the Internet of today and tomorrow and integrate IPv6 (fixed, dhcpv6, RA, ...) in the GNOME 'Network Settings' (and the same in KDE) as soon as possible.

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guepe wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:01

I totally agree with you : more, the ipv6 configuration *should* be completely integrated in the current GUI and be easy to use.

rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 21:49

Especially for LTS because the IPV4 cutoff is coming near. Only 2 or so years when the addresses really have run out and some people will HAVE TO start using IPV6 also for end users.

If the next LTS will not have IPV6 support all the way it will in 5+ years hindsight be a major fuckup.

broomfighter wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 23:21

I thought ubuntu did support ipv6. That was the explanation for the internet speed bug in gutsy and dapper, and the fix worked for me.
Here's a link after a quick google
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-87798.html

arekkusu wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 18:04

It's not about Ubuntu not supporting ipv6. It does !
It's about having easy configuration for it.

mbottrell wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 09:54

I'm happy for IPv6 to be available for all apps... but there also needs to a simple way that it's turned on/off for all apps.

It's a current mixed bag.

As for running out of IPs.... appears to be between 25-Dec-2010 and 03-Mar-2012 (See: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html )

IPv6 does need to be cleaned up (as recent work in the kernel suggests)... it's not optimum in it's current form.

Z_God wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 01:33

I've been using IPv6 for 5 years, also with Ubuntu. I don't see what kind of GUI configuration tools are needed for this since it should autoconfigure itself. I never ever had to configure anything on my Ubuntu desktops for it. It just works.

natureflow wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 14:42

IPv6 needs no configuration!!! :D

natureflow wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 14:43

There is NO need for a configuration GUI. IPv6 needs no configuration. Ubuntu does already support IPv6.

Does Network Manager support IPv6?

Z_God wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 16:14

It should work fine with Network Manager, at least on dual IPv4/IPv6 networks.

ondrej wrote on the 6 May 08 at 16:14

You need support for IPv6. Currently you cannot connect to only IPv6 network using NM, since NM requires IPv4 DHCP address assignment.

And this could get complicated with protected wireless networks. I want to just click and connect to IPv6-only network without any need to manually configure wpa supplicant.

natureflow wrote on the 5 Jun 08 at 15:33

The current configuration GUI is not written for IPv6. :(

mtrausch wrote on the 9 Jul 08 at 15:17

While it is true that IPv6 supports stateless auto-configuration if your local IPv6 router supports it, stateless auto-configuration is not the end-all, be-all of IPv6. Just like IPv4, you can assign static addresses, or use a DHCP server instead of the auto-configuration, and you can do a fair number of other things with it. Personally, I have always liked static and pseudo-static IP addresses for computer systems. However, with IPv6, if you're going to be running machines on a network, and you want those machines to be accessible from the outside, you're going to want to either assign a static IPv6 address (and add that to DNS), or use ISC DHCP 4 and ISC BIND such that you can have dynamic IPv6 addresses, but they're constantly updated in BIND (that way, you have a constant name for the machine if not always a constant IP). In addition, I like to manually assign IPv6 addresses so that I can remember them. It is a lot easier to remember my prefix and then a manually assigned node number than it is to remember the gobbledygook that is the autoconfiguration address for any number of machines. Assuming that my prefix is 2001:db8:1f11:3f/64, it's a lot easier for me to remember [2001:db8:1f11:3f::1] than it is to remember [2001:db8:1f11:3f:204:75ff:fee2:f76b]. So yes, this feature would be appreciated. XP SP3 does not have it, but Vista does. It is also coming in a (hopefully not distant) future release of NetworkManager.

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