On 16 February 2017 at 09:09, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ it still is key=value ... it uses the ifcfg- files (via the rh plugin) and they are all key=value It would be helpful if you could paste the journal output (journalctl -u NetworkManager) from the time period of attempting to get an address ... also the nmcli conn sh <connection_name> information for the interface along with your ifcfg- files