Ubuntu
network-manager-applet package

  1. Bug #761558
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 761558

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Tore Anderson (toreanderson) wrote : Re: [Bug 761558] Re: Default to enabling IPv6 addresses, but set to optional to bring up devices

* Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

> That's an option that can be changed by the user, so irrelevant to
> supporting IPv6 networks out of the box.

«Plug and Play» is important for most users.

> I don't think there are enough IPv6-only networks to warrant shipping
> IPv4 as optional by default just yet, to me that's likely to cause
> far more pain for the time being.

If there's no IPv6 on the network, as is the case for 99%+ of networks
today, IPv4 *won't* be made optional by such a change. Either IPv4 or
IPv6 must succeed even if neither is marked as "required", and if
there's no IPv6 on the network, the succeeding protocol pretty much has
to be IPv4.

Also, for what it's worth, Microsoft Windows (since Vista, 2006) and
Apple Mac OS X (since Lion, 2011) supports IPv6-only networks in their
default configuration.

With that in mind, it is hard for me to understand what that «far more
pain» concern you have is all about. Could you be more specific?

Best regards,
--
Tore Anderson