Disable IPv6 by default.

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Sep 13 15:49:39 UTC 2007


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 13.09.2007 16:17, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:09:02PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> Let's disable IPv6 by default and let the user enable it.
>> Why?  Is it causing a problem for you?
> 
> I'm all for leaving IPv6 enabled, but I'd like to abuse this thread to
> bring something up:
> 
> At work we only have a IPv4 dhcp-server. But anaconda seems to look for
> a IPv6 dhcp-server during network-install -- that takes about one minute
> to time out, which is a bit annoying. Thus I use "noipv6" regularly when
> installing Fedora at work.
> 
> Are other facing the same problem or is that something that only happens
> in this specific network? 

I've seen the same thing at home.

-Eric




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