On Thursday 13 September 2007 21:12:54 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Remember that IPv6 will probably explode quite fast at some point, like > > any technology with important network effects do. We ought to be > > prepared. > > My main problem is that I configure IPv4 and I explicitly have IPv6 > turned off (or so it appears in the interface), yet I still have IPv6 > loaded and used. This causes annoying warnings from programs trying to > use an unconfigured IPv6 interface. > > If I don't configure IPv4, the interface isn't configured; why is it > that way with IPv6? If I don't configure anything for IPv6, it is still > loaded. It is the way of doing for a end-user machin, in IPv6: you do not need to configure your IPv6 parameters. If an IPv6-enabled router exists in your local network, it will broadcast the needed configuration. In a sens IPv6 is more "plug and play" than IPv4. For that mecanism to work, IPv6 interfaces are always up. -- Laurent Rineau http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
