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 Subject: Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD Message-ID: <9395922d0411210823659288a6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041121145839.GA22939@gargantuan.com> References: <20041120165059.DF29543D64@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20041120165923.GA73153@ozzmosis.com> <e4b0ecef04112102273f091eec@mail.gmail.com> <9395922d041121030126fc204e@mail.gmail.com> <20041121145839.GA22939@gargantuan.com>
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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
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