How to shut off IPv6 in 8.1?
I found a message saying to change the modules.conf file and reboot. That succeeded in removing the ipv6 module, however, my card is still in 64 bit addressing mode. I have a Trendware gigabit ethernet that uses the ns83820 driver. Here's what /var/log/messages says: kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DS83820 10/100/1000 driver. kernel: eth0: using 64 bit addressing. kernel: eth0: ns83820 v0.18+: DP83820 v1.3: 00:40:f4:66:a0:ae io=0xdffff000 irq=5 f=h,sg kernel: eth0: link now 1000 mbps, full duplex and up. I can't ping anything other than my own IP. SuSE is really nice, but there's 2 things that I've come across that's very annoying. First, I told it during install not to format my home partition. Apparrently, it didn't, but it did touch it somehow and I lost about 40GB of stuff. Second, it defaulted to IPv6. Really stupid... Thanks, Barry
* Barry Michels (bmichels@intellimation.cc) [030203 11:36]:
I found a message saying to change the modules.conf file and reboot. That succeeded in removing the ipv6 module, however, my card is still in 64 bit addressing mode.
That has nothing to do with ipv6, it means that the card is using 64 bit addressing.
I can't ping anything other than my own IP.
Your problem is elsewhere then.
SuSE is really nice, but there's 2 things that I've come across that's very annoying. First, I told it during install not to format my home partition. Apparrently, it didn't, but it did touch it somehow and I lost about 40GB of stuff.
Huh?
Second, it defaulted to IPv6. Really stupid...
It doesn't "default" to ipv6, it's able to use both ipv6 and ipv4. Whoever told you that you need to remove ipv6 support was most likely wrong. -- -ckm
"Barry Michels"
SuSE is really nice, but there's 2 things that I've come across that's very annoying. First, I told it during install not to format my home partition. Apparrently, it didn't, but it did touch it somehow and I lost about 40GB of stuff. Second, it defaulted to IPv6. Really stupid...
[Asbestos suit on] Actually I would say that not only does SuSE 8.1 default to IPv6 but that support for IPv6 is rather 'patchy'. There is no (or at least I have been unable to find it) support for setting up IPv6 addressing, tunnels or routing [1]using the /etc/sysconfig/net/* and /etc/init.d configuration and scripts. The only IPv6 configuration I could find are that some IPv6 addresses are set in /etc/hosts and the radvd dæmon (which has to be manually configured) is supplied. Some, but not all[2], of the applications and dæmons will use or listen on IPv6 if it is configured. [1] I know that in theory IPv6 is meant to be more 'self configuring' than IPv4, but as most ISPs do not provide 'native' IPv6 connections it is necessary for most customers to set up a tunnel (GRE, sit etc) over IPv4 in order to use IPv6. [2] Including those such as sendmail which are supposed to be IPv6 enabled but SuSE have built without IPv6 support. Though it only took the addition of 2 lines to one of the patches[3] in the SuSE sendmail src.rpm to enable IPv6 support. [3] In case anyone is interested, adding the line +appdef(`confENVDEF', `-DNETINET6') to the patch creating devtools/Site/site.config.m4 and adding a DAEMON_OPTIONS(\`Family=inet6') to SuSEconfig.sendmail.
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Barry Michels
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Christopher Mahmood
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Graham Murray