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[ILUG] ipv6

[ILUG] ipv6

John Reilly jr at inconspicuous.org
Thu May 27 14:17:02 IST 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 12:59, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:24:45AM +0100, Colin Whittaker mentioned:
> > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:11:15AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> > >  Is there a neat way to tell IPv6 "don't pick up any dodgy IPs off
> > > routers, I want to assign stuff statically" ?
> > 
> > sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra=0
> 
>  Em...you can't run that before you modprobe ipv6. And when you modprobe
> ipv6, don't you quickly pick up the router advertisments ? It certainly
> doesn't seem to clean out any routers learned from routers.
> 
>  Also, is there a handly sysctl then to disable IPv6? Someone told me of
> it, but I can't find mention of it in Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

Not sure about a sysctl, but you can put the following into modules.conf
alias net-pf-10 off


Cheers,
John


-- 
John Reilly <jr at inconspicuous.org>




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