On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 10:17 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:09:02PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > Let's disable IPv6 by default and let the user enable it. > > Why? Is it causing a problem for you? > > IPv6 deployment is a chicken-and-egg problem. Everything Fedora can > do to be proactive about encouraging its use should be applauded. One > day we will eventually need it, and if we don't work out the wrinkles > now, we'll be in trouble later. Windows Vista has it enabled by > default. So should Fedora. It might be causing problems for me that I'm just not aware of. Once when I was tailing my syslog files, I'd catch NM blocking for a few seconds on some IPv6 operation. It might be asynchronous or it might not be, but it's something that I (as a Fedora user) don't want to enable consciously at this time. At the very least, make disabling it a one-step process (and free up ALL resources related to IPv6). Right now, I can't even figure out how to disable it entirely. There's online documentation on doing this by editing /etc/sysctl.conf flags, editing files in /etc/sysconfig/ and removing kernel modules from configuration. I understand the chicken-and-egg thing, but please help me exercise my freedom and make it easier for me to disable it. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
