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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:27:19 +0200
From:      Panagiotis Christias <christias@gmail.com>
To:        andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
Cc:        Danny Browne <danny_browne@eircom.net>
Subject:   Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD
Message-ID:  <e4b0ecef04112102273f091eec@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041120165923.GA73153@ozzmosis.com>
References:  <20041120165059.DF29543D64@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20041120165923.GA73153@ozzmosis.com>

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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +0000, Danny Browne wrote:
> 
> > How do i turn off IPv6 support in FreeBSD 4.10?
> 
> Remove "options INET6" from your kernel config file
> (/sys/i386/conf/XXX), rebuild your kernel and reboot your machine.
> 
> There may be a way to turn it off at runtime using sysctl, but I don't
> know what it is, and in hindsight it probably wouldn't make much sense
> to do that at runtime, although I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)
> 
> Regards
> Andrew

You can also comment out the 'ipv6_enable="YES"' line in /etc/rc.conf.



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