On Monday 06 October 2008, Thomas Cameron wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> In /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 I have the line as in the subject, but I note >> that bringing up eth0, at a fixed ipv4 address in the 192.168 block, there >> is about a 5 second pause doing it, and ifconfig does report what looks >> like valid ipv6 addresses for both eth0 and lo. >> >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1F:C6:62:FC:BB >> inet addr:192.168.71.3 Bcast:192.168.71.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >> inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe62:fcbb/64 Scope:Link >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:52899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:45100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> RX bytes:34184438 (32.6 MiB) TX bytes:26737247 (25.4 MiB) >> Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa000 >> >> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host >> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >> RX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >> RX bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB) TX bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB) >> >> >> How does one go about disabling that? > >What happens if you add: > >install ipv6 /bin/true > >to /etc/modprobe.conf? Forgive me if that doesn't work, I don't have a >Fedora box to play with at the moment, only RHEL 5. > >TC Thanks. I put that in, and re-assigned the index numbers to re-order the hd stuff too. Rebooted, the ipv6 is gone and bringing up eth0 is faster, but the drives are still out of order. Labels make it work anyway, so I suppose its a shrug. Thank you. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
