On 11/17/05, Yogich
On Thursday 17 November 2005 08:40, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Steve Graegert wrote:
On 11/16/05, Yogich
wrote: Where the devil did the thread concerning ipv6 go? Should have disabled it immediately, I guess, but was busy figuring out touchpad. :-\
In modprobe.conf uncomment the following line
# install ipv6 /bin/true
This will disable IPv6 support permanently.
That's neither wise nor sufficient.
Don't change modprobe.conf, write your local changes in modprobe.conf.local, as is mentioned at the start of modprobe.conf.
In addition to the line above, also add install sit0 /bin/true install net-pf-10 /bin/true
Cheers, Joachim
-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany
One might go into an explanation to buttress the point... ;-)
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.
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.
\Steve
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Steve Graegert