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Re: IPv6 address popping up
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:26:01 +0200
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> On 05 Aug 2015, at 11:18, Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From:	Andreas Mock <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent:	Wed 05-08-2015 19:14
> Subject:	AW: IPv6 address popping up
> To:	Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]; 
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> Thank you for that hint. I'll try it.
>> Can you explain what the difference to
>> 
>> net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
>> 
>> is?
>> 
>> Do you have an idea why the IPv6 kernel module
>> is pulled in?
>> 
> 
> I'll leave that to someone else to explain.
> It just worked for me.
> Maybe something is using the "default" rather than what is covered by "all"
> It would be good to know the answer, though.

It's sufficient to type something like "host ::0" to get it autoloaded. The correct way to disable IPv6 on SL6 is to have an "options ipv6 disable=1" somewhere in modprobe.d .

-- 
Stephan Wiesand
DESY - DV -
Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany

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