From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 14:59:00 2004 Return-Path: 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 814D316A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:59:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (phoenix.gargantuan.com [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C1543D31 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:59:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael@gargantuan.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.gargantuan.com [127.0.0.1]) by spamassassin-injector (Postfix) with SMTP id D94E45CB; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:58:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4645E404; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:58:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:58:39 -0500 From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: David Jenkins Message-ID: <20041121145839.GA22939@gargantuan.com> Mail-Followup-To: David Jenkins , Panagiotis Christias , Danny Browne , andrew clarke , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041120165059.DF29543D64@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20041120165923.GA73153@ozzmosis.com> <9395922d041121030126fc204e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9395922d041121030126fc204e@mail.gmail.com> X-WWW-Site: http://michael.gargantuan.com X-PGP-Public-Key: $X-WWW-Site/gnupg/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 2694 0179 AE3F BFAE 0916 0BF5 B16B FBAB C5FA A3C9 X-Home-Phone: +1-863-816-8091 X-Mobile-Phone: +1-863-738-2334 X-Home-Address0: 8008 Apache Lane X-Home-Address1: Lakeland, FL X-Home-Address2: 33810-2172 X-Home-Address3: United States of America X-Good-Question-Guide: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html X-Netiquette-Guidelines: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on phoenix.gargantuan.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-105.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Panagiotis Christias cc: andrew clarke cc: Danny Browne Subject: Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:59:00 -0000 --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004-11-21T11:01:09+0000, David Jenkins wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:27:19 +0200, Panagiotis Christias > wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke w= rote: > >=20 > >=20 > > > 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= =2E :) > > > > > > Regards > > > Andrew > >=20 > > You can also comment out the 'ipv6_enable=3D"YES"' line in /etc/rc.conf. >=20 > I just ensured my rc.conf didn't have=20 >=20 > ipv6_enable=3D"YES" >=20 > dropped to single user mode and came back up and it appears there is > still support for IPv6 ipv6_enable=3D"YES" is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you have to define ipv6_enable=3D"NO" in /etc/rc.conf to realize any change. FYI, since I actively use IPv6, I can't really say what the above definition will actually accomplish, but wanted to clear up what needed to be defined in /etc/rc.conf. To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6. --=20 Michael W. Oliver [see complete headers for contact information] --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBoKzOsWv7q8X6o8kRAsA4AJwL6EPh/nnyn0YxmA7+/IIKuZCAUQCgiWzy bZ5LavpWg0jLiVmw+IIf2zE= =iUic -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD--