On 11/17/05, Joachim Schrod
Steve Graegert wrote:
sit0 and net-pf-10 are aliases to ipv6.ko, the IPv6 kernel module. By disabling ipv6 as mentioned in my previous post sit0 is "disabled" as well.
I stand corrected -- almost. :-)
Just 7 days ago, Micheal James reported that disabling ipv6 is not always sufficient. See news://news.gmane.org:119/200511101517.53776.Michael.James@csiro.au
I actually had no idea what the intention of the OP was, since I was not aware of some similar thread. What I read from these lines was that IPv6 should be disabled, somehow.
I don't know if my advice actually helped in his solution, or if it was turning off the IPV6 handling in SUSE's firewall. Since you're completely right that these modules are aliases anyhow, I start to think it's the latter. Thanks for pointing that out, every day to learn something new. :-) :-)
Editing modprobe.conf or modprobe.conf.local is a matter of taste. The latter file is a SuSE extension and the "recommended" place to add modifications. In either case effect is the same.
The recommendation is there because modprobe.conf might have to updated by a SUSE package and won't be able to do it if you change it.
This could indeed be true. Since I am used to the "old way" of editing modprobe.conf (f.k.a modules.conf), I prefer editing modprobe.conf directly. (I am quite sure, this will change when something goes wrong with some package action :-)
Concerning that this is a SUSE extension -- well, it's done different for many Linux distributions anyhow. My Debian systems rely on update_modules, for example. And since one has to *add* the line anyhow (there is no ipv6 line in /etc/modprobe.conf, at least not in 9.0, 9.2, and 10.0), one can do so in modprobe.conf.local from the start. Just MHO, of course.
Ah, thanks. Didn't know that.
Anyway. diverging approaches among Linux distributions to solve
basically the same task is something that I still consider to be a
drawback. Makes me think of the not so old promising United Linux /
LSB days. *sigh*
\Steve
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Steve Graegert