On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:28:14PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:09:16PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
Is there some good reason why IPV6 is built into the kernel rather than as a module?
boot speed. But I thought we relented and pulled it out recently. What kernel flavor are you using?
nope, it should now be =y everywhere
commit 9d95188751f25b8244f78c3fec7c2647bd8274a8
Author: Jiri Bohac
There are a lot of systems where every DNS lookup has to timeout on the IPV6 lookup, thus IPV6 must be disabled. When it is a module, the YaST setting suffices, but if built in, it must be disabled on the kernel boot line in GRUB. That is confusing.
Agreed, I thought those issues were resolved already. Wasn't there a bug somewhere for this?
yes, this is solved, bnc#561611 -- YaST now does it via sysctl.
It is important to keep CONFIG_IPV6=y everywhere or it will break
again. I need to see why this is currently not true for
x86_64/ec2, sparc64/net and i386/ec2.
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Jiri Bohac