On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:30, Rick Stevens wrote:
> IPV6 is only supposed to load if /etc/sysconfig/network contains the
> line:
>
> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
>
> If you don't want IPV6, delete that line or set it to
>
> NETWORKING_IPV6=no
>
> BTW, a quick scan of /etc/rc.d/init.d/network would have revealed this.
A quick glance at the contents of /etc/init.d and /etc/sysconfig seems
to show that this is the way that system initialization is *supposed* to
work, but it looks that it isn't the way that it *does* work, at least
under FC2. On my system, /etc/sysconfig contains:
$ cat /etc/sysconfig
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=amito.localdomain
but lsmod definitely shows that ipv6 *is* loaded.
I got rid of it by adding (as suggested in a later posting) the line:
alias net-pf-10 off
to:
/etc/modprobe.conf
I *strongly* recommend that you do this. It speeds up web surfing by a
lot (probably because Doubleclick doesn't handle ipv6 properly), and
seems to speed up the system in general (though I can't even guess why.)
Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
