Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:15:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Eliminating IPv6 (?) Message-ID: <201906191615.x5JGFFt7018890@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <24170.1560891451@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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> In message <CAOjFWZ7A5cA=oE3viNy-W=G3uNxiBGtNccA8yEoHfL52dY=dEg@mail.gmail.com> > 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=yes 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. Agreed. And I only recommend rebuilding the kernel, one of my motivations for that is besides not needing the v6 on a log of stuff is it reduces both wasted code size, and some security concerns. > And god only knows how much will break once I've done that. How many other > 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.) I also agree here, running a WITHOUT_IPV6 userland is both very painful to get built AND has issues that one does not need to face, like I showed in another thread about netstat -6. > 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 -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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