[SOLVED] How to setup IPv6 manually?

[shirax]

Hello,
I'm lost. I can't seem to be able to set up my IPv6 connection with Mageia's Network Center. I can only set IPv4 in the gui.
The system gave me 2 IPv6 addresses thanks to DHCP but I need to configure them manually.
Specifically, I need to:
- set the address
- set the search domain
- set the DNS6 servers
- set the privacy extensions

Does anyone know how to achieve that?
Thanks.

[doktor5000]

The system gave me 2 IPv6 addresses thanks to DHCP but I need to configure them manually.

Can you elaborate a bit more on that, why you need to configure them manually in particular ?

[shirax]

Can you elaborate a bit more on that, why you need to configure them manually in particular ?

Sure, that's my new favorite topic
That computer is a corporate laptop I bring both home and on-site. Our DNS server and firewall are already configured for specific IPs when I'm home. And these IPs are different than the one stable-privacy gives me (and obviously, different than the ones I randomly get from DHCP). A few clients I work with simply don't have DHCP, so I need to provide a static IP when I'm at their place (their place, their rules). When home, DHCP gives me my ISP's DNS server which has two unfortunate flaws: 1. it blocks some websites; 2. it knows nothing about our corporate machines. So I need to use our own DNS server. There's also a very special case when I bring that laptop to my paramour's place but I guess that one is a bit too elaborate.

TL;DR I guess the reason you want to manually configure your IPv6 interface are the same as the reason you want to configure your IPv4 interface.

[shirax]

Solved

I've followed that guide and I'm now using network manager. It offers configuration for the IP address, routing, dns, search suffix, and works for both IPv4 and IPv6.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Switching_to_networkmanager

[doktor5000]

Well, for the main example if you only need different DNS servers there's no need to switch to a manual setup, FWIW.
You can simply append to the received DHCP options or overwrite some or all of them.