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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:05:57
Message-Id: CADPrc83N8P_obRCm3ZqSjWi_bj3rVxo0JrSf2yrGH_sawRAUaw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6? by Daniel Frey
1 On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > I switched ISPs a couple months back and have been struggling with
4 networking issues (not LAN, just WAN.)
5 >
6 > I have discovered that something is broken with my ISP's ipv6 support,
7 every time I go to a website there's a 10-second delay. When syncing
8 portage today I saw what the delay is: apparently it tries ipv6 twice,
9 fails, then resorts to ipv4 which works fine.
10 >
11 > Most of my systems now have ipv6 support removed, and viola! no more
12 delays.
13 >
14 > Except for the three systems I have that run systemd. I went in the
15 kernel config to disable ipv6, and it won't let me - looking at the
16 dependency list, it's systemd blocking this.
17 >
18 > So *why* on earth is it a dependency when (from what I've been reading
19 after discovering this) many ISPs don't seem to support it properly yet?
20 >
21 > And is there a way to build systemd without ipv6? Or am I going to have
22 to revert these three systems back to openrc?
23
24 Have you tried to boot the systems with the "disable_ipv6=1" kernel
25 parameter?
26
27 Regards.
28 --
29 Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés
30 Profesor de Carrera Asociado C
31 Departamento de Matemáticas
32 Facultad de Ciencias
33 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6? Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6? Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>