Thanks for the fast response Ryan! Here's some information from a fully updated CentOS 7.6 as of today, unmodified cloud-init 18.2-1.el7.centos.2 but no NetworkManager on AWS with IPV6 enabled. ``` [root@ip-172-31-21-249 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network # Created by cloud-init on instance boot automatically, do not edit. # NETWORKING=yes NETWORKING_IPV6=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=no [root@ip-172-31-21-249 ~]# ps -ef |grep dhc root 1347 1 0 00:14 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient--ens5.lease -pf /var/run/dhclient-ens5.pid -H ip-172-31-21-249 ens5 root 1425 1 0 00:14 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -6 -1 -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient6--ens5.lease -pf /var/run/dhclient6-ens5.pid ens5 -H ip-172-31-21-249 [root@ip-172-31-21-249 ~]# cat /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient6--ens5.lease default-duid "\000\001\000\001$\263\360\355\002\030CCi:"; lease6 { interface "ens5"; ia-na "CCi:" { starts 1562458400; renew 75; rebind 120; iaaddr 2600:1f14:589:f00:1212:8330:638:9075 { starts 1562458400; preferred-life 150; max-life 450; } } option dhcp6.client-id 0:1:0:1:24:b3:f0:ed:2:18:43:43:69:3a; option dhcp6.server-id 0:3:0:1:2:42:8f:b:a5:8e; } lease6 { interface "ens5"; ia-na "CCi:" { starts 1562458400; renew 75; rebind 120; iaaddr 2600:1f14:589:f00:1212:8330:638:9075 { starts 1562458400; preferred-life 150; max-life 450; } } option dhcp6.client-id 0:1:0:1:24:b3:f0:ed:2:18:43:43:69:3a; option dhcp6.server-id 0:3:0:1:2:42:8f:b:a5:8e; } lease6 { interface "ens5"; ia-na "CCi:" { starts 1562458477; renew 75; rebind 120; iaaddr 2600:1f14:589:f00:1212:8330:638:9075 { starts 1562458477; preferred-life 150; max-life 450; } } option dhcp6.client-id 0:1:0:1:24:b3:f0:ed:2:18:43:43:69:3a; option dhcp6.server-id 0:3:0:1:2:42:8f:b:a5:8e; } lease6 { interface "ens5"; ia-na "CCi:" { starts 1562458552; renew 75; rebind 120; iaaddr 2600:1f14:589:f00:1212:8330:638:9075 { starts 1562458552; preferred-life 150; max-life 450; } } option dhcp6.client-id 0:1:0:1:24:b3:f0:ed:2:18:43:43:69:3a; option dhcp6.server-id 0:3:0:1:2:42:8f:b:a5:8e; } [root@ip-172-31-21-249 ~]# ip -6 a 1: lo: mtu 65536 state UNKNOWN qlen 1000 inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: ens5: mtu 9001 state UP qlen 1000 inet6 2600:1f14:589:f00:1212:8330:638:9075/64 scope global dynamic valid_lft 442sec preferred_lft 142sec inet6 fe80::18:43ff:fe43:693a/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever [root@ip-172-31-21-249 ~]# ip -6 route show unreachable ::/96 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium unreachable ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium unreachable 2002:a00::/24 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium unreachable 2002:7f00::/24 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium unreachable 2002:a9fe::/32 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium unreachable 2002:ac10::/28 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium unreachable 2002:c0a8::/32 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium unreachable 2002:e000::/19 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium 2600:1f14:589:f00::/64 dev ens5 proto kernel metric 256 expires 432sec pref medium unreachable 3ffe:ffff::/32 dev lo metric 1024 error -113 pref medium fe80::/64 dev ens5 proto kernel metric 256 mtu 9001 pref medium ``` If you ever want to play around with this yourself, I periodically create and publish AMIs based on the template I reference: https://github.com/irvingpop/packer-chef-highperf-centos7-ami#latest-amis