Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:07:02 +0300 From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to force all packets to be ipv4 not v6 Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSdE=refEcw64YLeZGep9BC7%2BtjJ5qkSveB3ayQGk9bPHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44ip479wys.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <CAGBxaXnwzFKRi4H-41ZVZSHYB5XxB-uC2dFoqvyW28FXfyF63g@mail.gmail.com> <20130331095730.7c8b5e55@papi> <44ip479wys.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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If it's just for ssh(1) and scp(1) you can use ssh_config(5) to force the use of IPv4 based on the destination hostname. -Kimmo On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > 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 configure ipv6_prefer, but that appears to have been superseded by 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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