[Networkmanager] IPv6 Prefix Length

[Robert Nichols]

On 3/10/23 15:46, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On a host that is acting as a router, how do I get NetworkManager to request an IPv6 address block larger than a single /128 address? By fiddling with various options in the Network Connections GUI, I was just once able to get a /64 prefix. That happened when I set "Method" to "Shared with other computers", which saved "IPV6_AUTOCONF=shared" (a totally undocumented setting) in the interface's ifcfg file. But, that /64 prefix did not survive a reboot, and now I can't get it back at all.
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> A /64 prefix is bad enough (I'd like to confine some devices to their own subnet), but it's a lot better than a /128, which would force me to use IPv6 NAT, defeating the primary purpose of IPv6. (Comcast/Xfinity now appears to limit residential customers to a /64 -- no subnetting.)

Sorry, forgot to mention that this is in Rocky Linux 8.7, with systemd and all its trimmings.

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