Tim wrote: > I hadn't noticed until recently that ifconfig showed IPv6 addresses on > my PC. I had set up the NICs manually, and IPv6 wasn't ticked on, and > thought nothing more about it. Later I noticed the addresses in the > ifconfig output, so I tried turning IPv6 on and off in the network > configuration, but didn't notice any change in the output of ifconfig. > > I haven't noticed any other effects. Should I bother to do anything > about it? I don't need IPv6 internally. I was going to include IPv6 in the kernel I'm just compiling - 2.6.14 - but after reading this thread it sounded as though it was likely to cause unwanted problems. As far as I am concerend IPv4 works perfectly - I was only thinking of IPv6 to keep up with the Jones's. It's a bit like selinux - great in theory, but in practice likely to rasise more problems than it solves. Or is that nonsense? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
