Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Apr 4 11:43:46 UTC 2006
Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 07:59 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> I would start by turning off ipv6 just to check - I think a thread
>> covered it yesterday,
>>
>> echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
>>
>> and rebooting
>
> Assuming one wants to try this, is it really necessary to reboot?
Yes, it is. The ipv6 stack ties in so closely with the kernel's
internals that once it's loaded, it cannot be unloaded. So you need to
stop it loading in the first place if you don't want it.
Paul.
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