IPv6 Information confusing with multiple IPv6 addresses

Bug #1082880 reported by manic
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Bug Description

Hi,

I have two routable IPv6 Subnets in use. The preference of one over the other is done by configuring radvd on the router to set the "preferred lifetime" to 0 on the one I currently don't want to use by default (but can if I explicitly set the source address e.g. for traceroute).

ip -6 addr show eth2
4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
    inet6 2a02:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:21d:60ff:feae:a82/64 scope global deprecated dynamic
       valid_lft 10739sec preferred_lft 0sec
    inet6 2001:YYYY:YYYY:YYYY:c5ae:62dc:7f23:a66c/64 scope global temporary dynamic
       valid_lft 10739sec preferred_lft 3539sec
    inet6 2001:YYYY:YYYY:YYYY:21d:60ff:feae:a82/64 scope global dynamic
       valid_lft 10739sec preferred_lft 3539sec
    inet6 fe80::21d:60ff:feae:a82/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

The nm-applet only shows the first address in this list (2a02:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:21d:60ff:feae:a82), although it is marked as deprecated.

I believe the applet should display ALL routable IP-adresse (the link local one is not needed), and ordered by the preference of the OS. In my example, it should be first the "global temporary dynamic", then the "global dynamic" and then the "global deprecated dynamic" address.

Release: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Pkg Version: network-manager-gnome, 0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2

Tags: ipv6
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manic (nicolas-launchpad-iselin) wrote :

Bug still present in trusty (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

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