Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:43:23 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: how to force all packets to be ipv4 not v6 Message-ID: <44ip479wys.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20130331095730.7c8b5e55@papi> (Mario Lobo's message of "Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:57:30 -0300") References: <CAGBxaXnwzFKRi4H-41ZVZSHYB5XxB-uC2dFoqvyW28FXfyF63g@mail.gmail.com> <20130331095730.7c8b5e55@papi>
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Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> writes: > On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:20:17 -0400 > Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a host that for ISP reasons must have a ipv6 addr as well as >> the ipv4 but the ISP does not offer external ipv6 routing but all the >> commanes (ssh, ftp, etc.) default to ipv6 and need special options to >> use 4 is there anyway to force them to always use 4? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > A kick and dirty way would be to comment the line: > > options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols > > from your kernel config and recompile. That breaks the "must have a ipv6 addr" requirement. The way to do this without completely disabling IPv6 used to be to configure ipv6_prefer, but that appears to have been superseded by ip6addrctl_policy.
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