Re: What is "sit0" for (in ifconfig -a)? Can I get rid of it ?

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Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Hi,

Em Sexta 12 Janeiro 2007 10:51, Robert Locke escreveu:
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:07 +0200, Ian Brown wrote:
Hello,

I have a newly installer FC6 on x86_64, and when I run
ifconfig -a I get at the bottom
...
...

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


I have two questions regarding this:
can I get rid of this sit0, so that in next boot it will not
appear when I run "ifconfig -a" ? I don't use ipv6 (and will not
use it until at least FC7 , but probably also not after FC7 is out).
And I don't use ppp/slip on this machine (nor any special
net features).

Second: when I run "lsmod" I see : "ipv6" ; can I get rid of this module
so that in next boot it will not appear ? (As said, I will **not** use
ipv6 in the near future).

Regards,
Ian
Ian,

Add two lines to your /etc/modprobe.conf:

alias ipv6 off
alias net-pf-10 off

Then, after you reboot, both the sit0 and the ipv6 module will not
load...

But what is this sit0 interface?

Thanks,
Marcelo

The sit interface is a IPv6 to v4 tunnel interface.  IIRC.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator	
ERC Broadband



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