[CentOS] IPv6 broken on Linode

Alice Wonder alice at domblogger.net
Thu Feb 16 09:09:01 UTC 2017


On 02/16/2017 12:54 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <4cbb9dc4-f063-3434-b7a1-d4d0e6581b5e at domblogger.net>,
> Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> wrote:
>> https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=14570&p=72785
>>
>> I can not figure out what I need to do.
>>
>> Apparently according to linode support, the VM is trying to grab an IPv6
>> address with some privacy stuff enabled by default causing it to not
>> grab the IPv6 address that is assigned to me.
>
> Does the accepted answer at the following link give you any useful hints?
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/243669/how-to-avoid-exposing-my-mac-address-when-using-ipv6
>
> Cheers
> Tony
>

Not really - I tried

net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr = 0

and it still fails to grab the proper IPv6

-=-

Just in case, I did ask Linode support to verify that my hardware 
address is what it is suppose to be. Still waiting to hear on that.



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