On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:25:31AM +0200, Laurent Rineau wrote: > On Thursday 13 September 2007 21:12:54 Chris Adams wrote: > > 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. Recent OSes including Fedora do configure IPv4 automatically too. You'll see 169.254.x.x addresses appear if there is no DHCP server response. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
