IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network
Phil Savoie
psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Tue Oct 7 01:51:27 UTC 2008
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
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