On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:52, Rick Thomas <rbthoma...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Mark wrote: > >> Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>> The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in -- i.e. >>> not a module. >>> Does this make it impossible to turn off IPv6? Or am I missing >>> something... >> >> Had the same issue a while back already, but after a quick google search I >> found something that was similar to what I did then. >> >> alias net-pf-10 off >> alias ipv6 off >> >> Those two, and jam them in a /etc/modprobe.d/00ipv6disable or something >> along those lines. Don't forget to reboot. > > Interestingly, > > This didn't work on the Squeeze system, but it worked fine on a Lenny system > running a stock Lenny 2.6.26-2 kernel, which seems to have been generated > with ipv6 as a module.
[reformated to bottom post, please don't top post] That is beacuse those two lines go in /etc/modprobe.d/ which deals with modules (module probe). So they have no effect when it is not a module. > Equally interestingly, > > The Lenny system had no file called /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/disable_ipv6 > > Is this new with 2.6.30 (Squeeze) kernels? Or is it a feature of having > ipv6 compiled in? That I don't know. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
