On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:28:30PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
1) It can't be unloaded anyway.
2) If it's a module, it will be loaded at entirely random times, depending
on what sockets a user opens, what functions they call, etc. For example,
'ping6 -?' loads IPv6.
3) Because of its modularity, users attempt to disable it in a variety of
misguided ways, which may or may not work depending on when the module is
loaded.
4) Because of its unpredictability of loading, setting IPv6 sysctls for an
interface becomes complicated. It requires both the presence of the device,
and the presence of the IPv6 module; however, these events aren't tied
together.
5) It solves alot of dependency issues - i.e. bonding/bridging and several other
modules are dependent on ipv6.ko, and people often try to disable ipv6 by
blacklisting it, which inadvertently breaks the aforementinoed modules.
By building in IPv6, we solve these issues, and make the behavior of
the system more predictable. Plus, hey, it's the future.
To disable IPv6, boot with:
ipv6.disable_ipv6=1 (to disable IPv6 addresses on all interfaces)
or
ipv6.disable=1 (to render the entire module non-functional)
Can we not promote
this method, I'd really like to see it go away upstream, its
a hack, the disable_ipv6 sysctl is really the way to go.
+1 to making ipv6 built-in though.
Neil
---
config-generic | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic
index 6b18a41..524e8fd 100644
--- a/config-generic
+++ b/config-generic
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ CONFIG_IP_VS_NQ=m
CONFIG_IP_VS_FTP=m
CONFIG_IP_VS_PE_SIP=m
-CONFIG_IPV6=m
+CONFIG_IPV6=y
CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY=y
CONFIG_IPV6_ROUTER_PREF=y
CONFIG_IPV6_ROUTE_INFO=y
--
1.7.5.2
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