Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:57:31 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Eliminating IPv6 (?) Message-ID: <24170.1560891451@segfault.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOjFWZ7A5cA=oE3viNy-W=G3uNxiBGtNccA8yEoHfL52dY=dEg@mail.gmail.com>
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Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote:
>For someone who doesn't want to be preached to about the benefits of IPv6=
,
>you certainly do a lot of preaching about not wanting IPv6. :)
Guilty as charged.
>You've been given the tools to do exactly what you want:
> - comment out IPv6 support in the kernel config file
> - add WITHOUT_IPV6=3Dyes to /etc/src.conf
> - rebuild the world and kernel
>
>Voila! A version of FreeBSD made especially for you, without any traces =
of
>IPv6. Does exactly what you want. Why the long diatribe asking for
>something else once you've been shown how to do what you want?
Rebuild kernel+world is not exactly a quick solution.
And god only knows how much will break once I've done that. How many othe=
r
people have tested -all- of the resulting binaries, seriously, on actual
production systems? (I may be the first one ever, at least for 12.0.)
But this is all besides the point anyway. I am now resigned to my fate,
and I am already up to the fifth stage of grief with respect to this issue=
.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
Regards,
rfg
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