https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734777 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734777#c0 Summary: ipv6 entries in sysctl.conf not taking affect Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: peter.hine@familycourt.gov.au QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 Problem appears to be an order issue. ipv6 module not loaded at time of boot.sysctl running. boot.ipconfig MAY load it if forwarding and/or privacy is selected. ipv6 doesn't load until network service is started. there is no process that then goes on to apply the ipv6 setting in sysctl. So why is ipv6 not loaded when boot.sysctl. it's still optional. that's why. two solutions then. 1. load ipv6 module during startup like ipv4 is (what process loads that module ??) and rmmod it if needed in boot.ipconfig (IPV6_DISABLE=yes|YES|Yes|YEs|yEs|yES|yeS) 2. change boot.ipconfig so that it loads ipv6 module if IPV6_DISABLE is NOT no. therefore ipv6 will be loaded. redo the sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf (do we need to grep out the ipv6 settings only to a tmp file first ?) and then apply the forwarding, privacy and other settings from /etc/sysconfig/sysctl settings thanks Peter Humans aren't Case-SenSItive, so why are our file systems ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo 'net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf=0' >> /etc/sysctl.conf 2. boot the system 3. 'sysctl net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf' will show 1 Actual Results: depends on what ipv6 setting you want. for the above example, scope global dynamic will be present. Expected Results: depends on what ipv6 setting you want. for the above example, scope global dynamic will be removed. happens on SLE 10/11 and opensuse. probably systemic to many Linuxs that start in the same way SuSE does. on live systems, going to have to create a service that runs after the network, to either rerun 'sysctl -p /etc/sysconf' or run just the entries i want with 'sysctl -w' -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.