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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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