Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:46:56 GMT From: Jo Rhett<jrhett@svcolo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/104920: ipv6 can only be disabled by editing kernel Message-ID: <200610300346.k9U3kuVg027953@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200610300350.k9U3o8Me043392@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 104920 >Category: kern >Synopsis: ipv6 can only be disabled by editing kernel >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 30 03:50:07 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jo Rhett >Release: 6.2-BETA2 >Organization: Silicon Valley Colocation >Environment: >Description: For some time now the release notes for REL6 have indicated that ipv6_enable should disable all ipv6 support. It still doesn't as of beta2. There is clearly a push for people to run GENERIC, but choices like this make it completely impossible for security-conscious sites to do so. Can we please provide an option to completely disable ipv6 support in /etc/rc.conf? >How-To-Repeat: Put ipv6_enable in /etc/rc.conf Reboot ifconfig -a shows inet6 information for each interface. netstat -nr shows numerous ipv6 routes. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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