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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:40:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Cc:        vadim_nuclight@mail.ru, Mark_Andrews@isc.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?
Message-ID:  <20080305083930.Q37745@shell.xecu.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1JWtgy-0000Ug-Ld@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <E1JWtgy-0000Ug-Ld@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Pete French wrote:

> O.K., have snipped all the above IPv4 stuff, which actually seems quite
> reaosnable (though appears to foorget about STF), but this line...
> 
> > In the meantime, I'd like to only enable IPv6 on IPv6 enabled networks.
> 
> ...I fail to see how not wanting to enable it leads to you wanting
> to remove it from the kernel entirely ? That is the bit I don't understand
> about all of this discussion. Theres probably hundereds of bits in the kernel
> you havent enabled and don't use, why specificly do you want an option
> to take IPV6 out ?
> 
> I am genuinely piuzzled - why isn't "ipv6_enabled="NO" sufficient ? That's
> what I do on IPv4 networks and it works fine for me.

That's actually a good point. I've had a hard time shedding my "trim 
everything I don't use out of the kernel" mentality over the years.

Andy

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