From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Nov 21 16:23:40 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D7A16A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:23:40 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7509843D54
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:23:40 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from david.jenkins@gmail.com)
Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so139025wri
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:23:40 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
	s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references;
	b=KNKT6GtQ+1+gJYmEyx3+iBh5blyjFFRctRtTSbpq65od5vcVBVWwkvYfM7t4OjNo5Koc9dax/6jN+vpuPzUF+evFwUEbywOgvswiSlBL8qAzyp1YBm0sVO5hU2BlmUiLI1F1h790hgp9nnKN8+tUwQGhMUYp551kBnk+mcx/OuM=
Received: by 10.54.52.56 with SMTP id z56mr1131853wrz;
        Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:23:39 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.54.5.4 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:23:39 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <9395922d0411210823659288a6@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:23:39 +0000
From: David Jenkins <david.jenkins@gmail.com>
To: David Jenkins <david.jenkins@gmail.com>,
	Panagiotis Christias <christias@gmail.com>,
	Danny Browne <danny_browne@eircom.net>,
	andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <20041121145839.GA22939@gargantuan.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <20041120165059.DF29543D64@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
	 <20041120165923.GA73153@ozzmosis.com>
	 <e4b0ecef04112102273f091eec@mail.gmail.com>
	 <9395922d041121030126fc204e@mail.gmail.com>
	 <20041121145839.GA22939@gargantuan.com>
Subject: Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
Reply-To: David Jenkins <david.jenkins@gmail.com>
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 16:23:40 -0000

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:58:39 -0500, Michael W. Oliver
<michael@gargantuan.com> wrote:
> On 2004-11-21T11:01:09+0000, David Jenkins wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:27:19 +0200, Panagiotis Christias
> > <christias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +0000, Danny Browne wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > How do i turn off IPv6 support in FreeBSD 4.10?
> > > >
> > > > Remove "options INET6" from your kernel config file
> > > > (/sys/i386/conf/XXX), rebuild your kernel and reboot your machine.
> > > >
> > > > There may be a way to turn it off at runtime using sysctl, but I don't
> > > > know what it is, and in hindsight it probably wouldn't make much sense
> > > > to do that at runtime, although I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Andrew
> > >
> > > You can also comment out the 'ipv6_enable="YES"' line in /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> > I just ensured my rc.conf didn't have
> >
> > ipv6_enable="YES"
> >
> > dropped to single user mode and came back up and it appears there is
> > still support for IPv6
> 
> ipv6_enable="YES" is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you have to
> define ipv6_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf to realize any change.

Not on my system (RELENG_5_3)...

# cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ipv6_enable
ipv6_enable="NO"                # Set to YES to set up for IPv6.

David