IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network
Fred Silsbee
fredsilsbee at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 7 18:10:55 UTC 2008
--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7:44 AM
> On Monday 06 October 2008, Phil Savoie wrote:
> >Thomas Cameron wrote:
> >> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings;
> >>>
> >>> In /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 I have the line
> as in the subject, but I
> >>> note that bringing up eth0, at a fixed ipv4
> address in the 192.168
> >>> block, there is about a 5 second pause doing
> it, and ifconfig does
> >>> report what looks like valid ipv6 addresses
> for both eth0 and lo.
> >>>
> >>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
> 00:1F:C6:62:FC:BB
> >>> inet addr:192.168.71.3
> Bcast:192.168.71.255
> >>> Mask:255.255.255.0
> >>> inet6 addr:
> fe80::21f:c6ff:fe62:fcbb/64 Scope:Link
> >>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST
> MTU:1500 Metric:1
> >>> RX packets:52899 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
> >>> TX packets:45100 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >>> RX bytes:34184438 (32.6 MiB) TX
> bytes:26737247 (25.4 MiB)
> >>> Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa000
> >>>
> >>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> >>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> >>> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436
> Metric:1
> >>> RX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
> >>> TX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >>> RX bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB) TX
> bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> How does one go about disabling that?
> >>
> >> What happens if you add:
> >>
> >> install ipv6 /bin/true
> >>
> >> to /etc/modprobe.conf? Forgive me if that
> doesn't work, I don't have a
> >> Fedora box to play with at the moment, only RHEL
> 5.
> >>
> >> TC
> >
> >I think a reboot may be necessary for this change to
> work.
> >
> >Phil
>
> Expected. And I also expect that the proper newer syntax
> in the ifcfg-eth0
> file would also fix it, and require only a "service
> network restart" to
> adjust the setting.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of
> liberty:
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> order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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> things than you free
> with my breakfast cereal.
> -- Zaphod Beeblebrox
>
WHY make a career of it! I solved the same problem with:
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-disable-ipv6-on-fedora-linux-why/
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