Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling IPv6 on specific interface

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 30 December 2014 09:47:27 Zesen Qian wrote:
> Hello list,
>       I want to disable IPv6 on an certain interface, a simple google
>       tell me to add one line to /etc/sysctl.d/local.conf
>       net.ipv6.conf.enp4s0.disable_ipv6=1
>       Simple enough, but the problem I have is that both ipv6 and the
>       dirver of the network card(tg3) is loaded by modules. They 're not
>       loaded when the service sysctl is started, so there's no entry
>       named "net.ipv6.conf.enp4s0", which make sysctl not working.
>       So my question is that, is there any way to disable IPv6 on
>       specific interface, as early as I can? I want to make it early
>       because I don't want to receive any RA to mess up my route table.
>       I guess just adding sysctl to preup() in /etc/conf.d/net should do
>       the trick, but may I make it earlier?
>       Any comment is appreciated.

Please do not hijack someone else's thread.

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Rgds
Peter.