IPv6 in FC4 - How
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Sat Nov 5 01:59:10 UTC 2005
Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 17:20 -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote:
>
>
>>I'd like to tinker with IPv6 within my home network, but I'm finding a
>>dearth of information relating to configuring IPv6 in FC4. I can't
>>even find a ping6 manpage on my FC4 systems. The ping6 command is
>>there, but no manpage. I searched the list archive back through June
>>2005, but the few IPv6 threads found there deal mostly with how to
>>completely shut it off.
>>
>>
>
> Yeah... FC3 and FC4 and beyond have IPv6 enabled by accident. Even
>though the configuration defaults to "no", one of the configuration
>utilities (I suspect either "ip" or "ifconfig" or both) references
>PF_INET6 and the kernel kmodloads it in for you and away you go. But
>it's not properly configured like it should be and that's caused some
>people some problems
>
Is there any bug reports filed on this? If they are not already
reported, kindly do that and post a list.
regards
Rahul
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