On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 20:34 +0100, Steve Hill wrote: > I'm running rawhide and have 2 files in /etc/modprobe.d which are not > owned by any package and both contain the line "install ipv6 /bin/true". > The files are called disable-ipv6 and disable-ipv6-0 - with these files > present the ipv6 module is never loaded and therefore IPv6 will never > work, even when you explicitly configure the network to use IPv6 and have > a router advertising itself. > > This seems like a backwards step - it causes problems for those of us who > use IPv6 networks in our day to day lives and doesn't exactly help promote > the badly needed migration towards IPv6. > > Is there a good reason for disabling IPv6 by default (it's worth noting > that not only did previous releases of Fedora enable it by default, but so > does Mac OS X and I believe Windows Vista)? No good reason. There was a miscommunication about an initscripts change which led to it happening for test4. It should be fixed now though -- F7 installations shouldn't suffer the same problem. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
