[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#668462: network-manager: Wrong default for IPv6 Privacy Extensions

[Sam Morris]

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On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:47:18AM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
> It appears that when ip6-privacy is not defined, it defaults to 0. I believe
> that it should default to nothing at all and leave the sysctl value at whatever
> value was set without the help of NetworkManager. Users who had enabled IPv6
> Privacy Extensions will probably have done so by adding a manual sysctl for
> net.ipv6.conf.*.use_tempaddr; the current NetworkManager overrides this value,
> possibly disabling previously perfectly functioning IPv6 Privacy Extensions.

Is this still the case? NetworkManager.conf(5) says:

    ipv6.ip6-privacy
       If ipv6.ip6-privacy is unset, use the content of "/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/use_tempaddr" as last fallback.

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