On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:43:01 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.) > You'll find the sysconfig method speeds up surfing just the same. You're right the module is still loaded but this is a very small cost in terms of memory use. The recommended method will work even if you happen to be using a kernel that has IPV6 compiled in and module unloading isn't an option. Cheers, Sean
