Michael H. Warfield wrote:
Yeah... FC3 and FC4 and beyond have IPv6 enabled by accident. Even though the configuration defaults to "no", one of the configuration utilities (I suspect either "ip" or "ifconfig" or both) references PF_INET6 and the kernel kmodloads it in for you and away you go. But it's not properly configured like it should be and that's caused some people some problems (hence the threads on how to really REALLY turn it off - which requires rebooting the system, BTW...).
The problem is that if _any_ program (the resolver library is a big culprit here) tries to do anything IPv6-related the unconfigured kernel module gets loaded, and that module can never be unloaded. To stop that from happening you have to alias net-pf-10 to "off" in /etc/modprobe.conf, or else build a kernel that does not contain IPv6 support at all. Quite an oversight! -- Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
