Why doesn't --ipv6gateway option of 'network' kickstart command work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0?

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

  • I used the following network kickstart commands for two network interfaces.
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --noipv6
network --bootproto=static --device=eth1 --ip=192.168.120.10 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --ipv6=2001::10/64 --ipv6gateway=2001::1 --activate --hostname=rhel7.test.example.com
  • But, after installation, ifcfg-eth1 doesn't include the configuration of IPv6 gateway.

Resolution

Now, our Engineering team is reviewing the fix on private bugzilla.

Root Cause

This happens due to a bug in anaconda package. The value of ipv6gateway was reflected only when ipv6=dhcp was used.

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