On 2018-02-20, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there some way >> of telling the installer not to use IPv6? I have read >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6 but the >> installer does not have file /etc/sysctl.conf
I looked up the router (I've now lost the page and the router references--but it did mention "supported protocols IPv4 + IPv6" as indicated below). At any rate: if you have an IPv6 router or a DHCP server on your local network, but want to avoid them because e.g. they give wrong answers, you can use the parameter netcfg/disable_autoconfig=true to prevent any automatic configuration of the network (neither v4 nor v6) and to enter the information manually. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.html.en So I guess the 'netcfg/disable_autoconfig=true' as boot parameter would allow for manual configuration of the network within the installer, thus obviating the IPv6 conundrum. > Yet what installer *does* have that's /proc. > So, wait for the network autoconfiguration, switch to root vt, invoke: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 Maybe this would be less trouble. > And you just disabled IPv6 until the next reboot. > > Reco -- New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and the perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu. --Joan Didion
