3 commits - en_US/colophon.xml en_US/networkconfig.xml en_US/other-instmethods.xml

David Nalley ke4qqq at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 4 21:39:27 UTC 2008


 en_US/colophon.xml          |    2 +-
 en_US/networkconfig.xml     |   28 +++++++---------------------
 en_US/other-instmethods.xml |    8 +++-----
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit dc6e149163e2290114d0a96ae491490d5366dbe2
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 16:38:44 2008 -0500

    last of changes for ticket 26 - changed networkconfig.xml annotating new ipv6 data

diff --git a/en_US/networkconfig.xml b/en_US/networkconfig.xml
index 5ea0f9c..5fad0db 100644
--- a/en_US/networkconfig.xml
+++ b/en_US/networkconfig.xml
@@ -26,28 +26,14 @@
   <indexterm>
     <primary>IPv4</primary>
   </indexterm>
-  <indexterm>
-    <primary>IPv6</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-  <para>&DISTRO; contains complete support for both
-    <firstterm>IPv4</firstterm> and <firstterm>IPv6</firstterm>.  By
+    <para>&DISTRO; contains support for both
+    <firstterm>IPv4</firstterm> and <firstterm>IPv6</firstterm>. However, by
     default, &DISTRO; configures network interfaces on your computer for
-    both IPv4 and IPv6 support, and to use DHCP over both IPv4 and IPv6.
-    For more information about IPv6, refer to <ulink
-      url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6"/>.</para>
-  <para>Many home Internet routers and firewalls do not include
-    support for IPv6.  The default settings will not harm your system or
-    router in any way.  However, the speed of some services improves
-    drastically if you disable IPv6 on any interface on a network that
-    does not use IPv6.</para>
-  <tip>
-    <title>IPv6 and Boot Options</title>
-    <para>You can disable IPv6 support in the installation program using
-      the boot option <option>noipv6</option>.  The installation program
-      does not configure network interfaces for IPv6 if you use this
-      option.  For more information on boot options, refer to <xref
-	linkend="ap-admin-options"/>.</para>
-  </tip>
+    IPv4, and to use DHCP via <application>NetworkManager</application>. 
+    Currently <application>NetworkManager</application> does not support
+    IPv6. If your network only supports IPv6 you should use 
+    <application>system-config-network</application> after installation to
+    configure your network interfaces. </para>
 
  <note>
       <title>Modem Configuration</title>


commit bf7596929bac68e07aac55bfb8ca524d076c94bc
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 16:30:05 2008 -0500

    changed other-instmethods to reflect that NM doesn't support IPv6 currently ref: ticket 26

diff --git a/en_US/other-instmethods.xml b/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
index 182df81..092319a 100644
--- a/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
+++ b/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
@@ -199,11 +199,9 @@
 	(DHCP)</guilabel>.
     </para>
     <para>
-      The installation program supports both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. If
-      you are not sure which addressing scheme your network uses, it is
-      safe to leave both options selected.  Refer also to <xref
-      linkend="ch-networkconfig"/> for more information on configuring
-      your network.
+      The installation program supports only the IPv4 protocol. 
+      Refer also to <xref linkend="ch-networkconfig"/> for more 
+      information on configuring your network.
     </para>
     <note>
       <title>DHCP Responses Take Time</title>


commit 5d114623b21fef37998327e5d1c0ceb73ba8b09c
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 13:43:14 2008 -0500

    changed co-publisher to publisher in colophon.xml

diff --git a/en_US/colophon.xml b/en_US/colophon.xml
index e78a734..43eee90 100644
--- a/en_US/colophon.xml
+++ b/en_US/colophon.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 	  Erick Lemon (writer) </para></listitem>
        <listitem>
 	<para>
-	  <ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KarstenWade"> Karsten Wade</ulink>  (writer, editor, co-publisher)</para>
+	  <ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KarstenWade"> Karsten Wade</ulink>  (writer, editor, publisher)</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>





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