Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2005-01-28 at 09:45 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
This brings up the immediate question: why is IPv6 automatically enabled when SuSE 9.x is installed, but configuration is something which must be done only after the installation is complete? I do not recall seeing anything anywhere in YaST where IPv6 can be configured in any way. Given the complexity of doing things like IPv6 tunnelling, I would think the default should be to have IPv6 disabled at installation time.
I believe 9.2 has a setting in yast to dissable ipv6, but 9.1 doesn't.
I hope this also disables the place in SuSEfirewall2 where ip6_tables is loaded anyway, even if the ipv6 module isn't loaded (that's in 9.0, I don't know 9.1 because I have never installed it). Perhaps the powers that be might consider backporting this feature to 9.0 and 9.1, and issuing an update for all appropriate packages. This whole issue begs the question: will the next version of SuSE also have an option to disable ipv4, for those who only have an ipv6 presence? With both versions enabled, hopefully YaST will also offer options for configuring ipv6-to-ipv4 tunnelling. That stuff isn't all that exotic, but it still baffles me, because I don't have the patience to work through the documentation.