GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 758312
Disabling IPv6 is broken
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:31:45 UTC
Open Network Manager Go to the Wired connection Go the IPv6 tab. Disable Ipv6 by setting the slider at the top to Off. Reboot. Open Network Manager. Note that it has STILL acquired an ipv6 address.
If you slide IPv6 to OFF in the gnome-control-center-UI, that corresponds to setting IPv6 to "ignore". There is no "disable" implemented (yet). Probably one day we should have a really "disabled" method (which is bug 746041). For now I reassign this bug to gnome-control-center, because this seems to confuse people. Maybe a tooltip could help there?
*** Bug 754930 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same issue here . On fedora 24, I still get an IPv6 address, even if the slider is set to off. However, IPv6 is not ignored : IPv6 traffic is still prioritized. This cause issues in networks that have IPv6 enabled but malfunctioning.
(In reply to Trystram JB from comment #3) > Same issue here . > > On fedora 24, I still get an IPv6 address, even if the slider is set to off. > However, IPv6 is not ignored : IPv6 traffic is still prioritized. This cause > issues in networks that have IPv6 enabled but malfunctioning. your issue is that NM doesn't have an option to disable IPv6 entirely. It only has method=ignore (see bug 746041). This BZ is merely for the UI to make the current behavior clearer.
*** Bug 769459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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