QMI IPv6 crashes

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 22:22 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> writes:
> 
> > But I guess I shouldn't let the kernel manage these things, but instead
> > test with NM?  It will deal with the RS and neighbour discovery on its
> > own, is that right?
> 
> Struggling a bit with this.. How do I configure NM to start an IPv6 only
> connection?  I don't see any gsm.ip-type or similar attribute here:

[ipv4]
method=disabled

[ipv6]
method=auto

will do the trick, assuming you're using the dcbw/wwan-ipv6 branch for
NM?  After editing, make sure you "nmcli con reload" since NM by default
doesn't watch config files edited directly.

To test dual-stack, set the ipv4 method to 'auto' too.

Dan

> bjorn at nemi:~$ nmcli c show uuid 50160088-ca57-11e3-b04c-002186a3257d 
> connection.id:                          telenor.ipv6
> connection.uuid:                        50160088-ca57-11e3-b04c-002186a3257d
> connection.interface-name:              --
> connection.type:                        gsm
> connection.autoconnect:                 no
> connection.timestamp:                   1367921043
> connection.read-only:                   no
> connection.permissions:                 
> connection.zone:                        --
> connection.master:                      --
> connection.slave-type:                  --
> connection.secondaries:                 
> connection.gateway-ping-timeout:        0
> ipv4.method:                            auto
> ipv4.dns:                               
> ipv4.dns-search:                        
> ipv4.addresses:                         
> ipv4.routes:                            
> ipv4.ignore-auto-routes:                no
> ipv4.ignore-auto-dns:                   no
> ipv4.dhcp-client-id:                    --
> ipv4.dhcp-send-hostname:                yes
> ipv4.dhcp-hostname:                     --
> ipv4.never-default:                     no
> ipv4.may-fail:                          yes
> ipv6.method:                            auto
> ipv6.dns:                               
> ipv6.dns-search:                        
> ipv6.addresses:                         
> ipv6.routes:                            
> ipv6.ignore-auto-routes:                no
> ipv6.ignore-auto-dns:                   no
> ipv6.never-default:                     no
> ipv6.may-fail:                          yes
> ipv6.ip6-privacy:                       -1 (unknown)
> ipv6.dhcp-hostname:                     --
> gsm.number:                             --
> gsm.username:                           --
> gsm.password:                           --
> gsm.password-flags:                     0 (none)
> gsm.apn:                                telenor.ipv6
> gsm.network-id:                         --
> gsm.network-type:                       0
> gsm.allowed-bands:                      1 (any)
> gsm.pin:                                --
> gsm.pin-flags:                          0 (none)
> gsm.home-only:                          no
> 
> And as expected, this creates a MM bearer with "IP type: 'none'":
> 
> bjorn at nemi:~$ mmcli -b 4
> Bearer '/org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Bearer/4'
>   -------------------------
>   Status             |   connected: 'no'
>                      |   suspended: 'no'
>                      |   interface: 'unknown'
>                      |  IP timeout: '20'
>   -------------------------
>   Properties         |         apn: 'telenor.ipv6'
>                      |     roaming: 'allowed'
>                      |     IP type: 'none'
>                      |        user: 'none'
>                      |    password: 'none'
>                      |      number: 'none'
>                      | Rm protocol: 'unknown'
>   -------------------------
>   IPv4 configuration |   method: 'unknown'
>   -------------------------
>   IPv6 configuration |   method: 'unknown'
> 
> 
> 
> Which doesn't work for me. I'm a bit GUI challenged, so I am editing
> system connection files directly and using nmcli to manage the
> connections.
> 
> 
> Bjørn
>