IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Oct 4 06:54:57 UTC 2008
On Saturday 04 October 2008, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
>Hello,
>
>You are using IPv4 ( If IPv6 disabled )...
>
>Edward.
>
Agreed Edward, but when it doesn't show the ipv6 addresses at all, the
interface is brought up in milliseconds, as opposed to the 5 second lag it
has now. That is the lag I would like to remove.
Thank you.
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>Greetings;
>>
>>In /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 I have the line as in the subject, but I note
>>that bringing up eth0, at a fixed ipv4 address in the 192.168 block, there
>> is about a 5 second pause doing it, and ifconfig does report what looks
>> like valid ipv6 addresses for both eth0 and lo.
>>
>>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1F:C6:62:FC:BB
>> inet addr:192.168.71.3 Bcast:192.168.71.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>> inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe62:fcbb/64 Scope:Link
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>> RX packets:52899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:45100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>> RX bytes:34184438 (32.6 MiB) TX bytes:26737247 (25.4 MiB)
>> Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa000
>>
>>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
>> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
>> RX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>> TX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>> RX bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB) TX bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB)
>>
>>
>>How does one go about disabling that?
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