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The minimum IPv6 MTU (ipv6 stack should handle at minmum this size) is 1280 bytes. If you set the MTU below that then you can't really have ipv6 addrconf follows the MTU changes and if it sees change below 1280 then it disables ipv6 on the iface $ ifquery swp1 auto swp1 iface swp1 mtu 420 $ ifreload -a error: swp1: cmd '/bin/ip -force -batch - [link set dev swp1 down link set dev swp1 addrgenmode eui64 link set dev swp1 up ]' failed: returned 1 (RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol Command failed -:2 ) Reviewed-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Julien Fortin <julien@cumulusnetworks.com>