Re: IPv6?

[John Vasileff <john lists gmail com>]

On 7/11/05, Jay Lee <jlee pbu edu> wrote:
>  Yep, I first started noticing it on a Fedora Core 2 system.  It really
> doesn't hurt anything (except on FC2 which had a bug causing mozilla to run
> dirt slow with DNS lookups when ipv6 was loaded) but I generally turn it off
> because we have no plans to move to ipv6 soon and it just chews up some
> memory, not much but every bit is significant :-)
> 

Another reason to disable it is for security - ipv6 may be used to
access some services that are firewalled by iptables unless ip6tables
is also used.


John