On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:48 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 13.09.2007 16:17, 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? > > I'm all for leaving IPv6 enabled, but I'd like to abuse this thread to > bring something up: > > At work we only have a IPv4 dhcp-server. But anaconda seems to look for > a IPv6 dhcp-server during network-install -- that takes about one minute > to time out, which is a bit annoying. Thus I use "noipv6" regularly when > installing Fedora at work. > > Are other facing the same problem or is that something that only happens > in this specific network? Does the timeout really have to be one > minute? Wouldn't something like 10 or 15 seconds suffice if a IPv4 > address was found already? Same here. That's the top-most reason I disable it (the others including that I don't need it in my network). It might actually be a bug that needs reporting. Or it might be a limitation of IPv6 (perhaps according to the specs, one minute is the timeout). -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
