On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:12 am, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
I wish to deactivate IPv6 networking completely and I have these settings now in sysconfig
agika:/etc/sysconfig # cat SuSEfirewall2 | grep -i "ipv6" FW_IPv6="drop" FW_IPv6_REJECT_OUTGOING="yes"
agika:/etc/sysconfig # cat windowmanager | grep -i "ipv6" KDE_USE_IPV6="no"
Following an earlier thread I also have /etc/modprobe.conf.local with: # This turns IPv6 OFF install ipv6 /bin/true Stops _some_ of the ipv6 modules loading. Not all, anyone else know how to get rid of: ip6table_mangle 2432 0 ip6table_filter 2816 0 ip6_tables 18304 2 ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter michaelj PS: Commetn all the IPv6 cruft out of /etc/hosts or "localhost" will be borken. -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.