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On Jan 17, 2012 11:56 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2012-01-17, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards |
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> ><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> How does one disable IPv6 for a particular interface? |
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> >> I want eth2 "up" but with no IP address. ?Just doing an "ifconfig eth2 |
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> >> up" worked fine until I enabled IPv6 support in the kernel. ?Now I get |
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> >> a link-local IPv6 address just by bringing the interface up -- and I |
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> >> don't want one. |
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> >> Google has found me the anser for Debian, but for Gentoo all it found |
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> >> was somebody else asking the qeustion (with no answers). |
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> > I didn't try it myself, but what about sysctl? |
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> > net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1 |
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> > or something like that... |
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> That does it! |
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> The next question is what do I put in the Gentoo network configuration |
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> file (/etc/conf.d/net) to get that result (eth2 up with no IP |
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> addresses). |
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You don't. |
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Put it in /etc/sysctl.conf instead. |
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Rgds, |
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