Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:17:09 +1000 (EST) From: Neo-Vortex <root@Neo-Vortex.net> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: hampi@rootshell.be Subject: Re: disabling ipv6 with ppp Message-ID: <20050322111432.P6452@Neo-Vortex.net> In-Reply-To: <20050321135528.7ae92ef4@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <20050307104524.GA1877@gicco.homeip.net> <20050321135528.7ae92ef4@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Brian Somers wrote: > Use ``disable ipv6'' - see the man page. > Put ``NOINET6=true'' in /etc/make.conf to make IPv6 go away entirely. > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:45:24 +0100, Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using ppp. Even though INET6 is disabled in the kernel there is > > some INET6 stuff configured. Netstat -rn shows: > > > > ... > > Internet6: > > Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire > > ::1 ::1 UH lo0 > > fe80::%lo0/64 fe80::1%lo0 U lo0 > > fe80::1%lo0 link#4 UHL lo0 > > ff01::/32 ::1 U lo0 > > ff02::%lo0/32 ::1 UC lo0 > > ff02::%tun0/32 fe80::20f:3dff:feae:5416%tun0 UGS tun0 > > > > The last route to 'ff02::%tun0/32' appears only if ppp is running. > > Some seconds after ppp is startet (ppp -quiet -auto isp) it goes > > online. Trying to delete the route by hand claims it is a bad > > address: > > > > route delete 'ff02::%tun0/32' > > route: bad address: ff02::%tun0/32 PPP Running with IPv6 support or not means nothing if those addresses appear or not, it is because your kernel is compiled with IPv6 support, so the link local addresses as you see will appear, also, if you want to try to remove them, you will most likely need to put -inet6 on the command line, although i don't believe it is possible to remove link local addresses... ie - disable it in your kernel and it will disappear (you might also want to disable it for world programs too as someone has stated in case of any problems...) > > How can I run ppp without INET6 support? > > > > -Hanspeter > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > -- > Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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