On Tuesday 2011-06-07 11:24, Erik Schorr wrote: >> There are no accidents. It's your userspace which triggers it loading. >> And what is it actually that you are trying to fix? It smells more >> like you have a bug in your environment. > >On most Linux distributions and default installations, the ipv6 module gets >automatically loaded either on startup or when certain utilities try to probe >ipv6 entities or test for ipv6 connectivity, even when you haven't configured >any ipv6 interfaces. Just as tcp and udp - were it compilable as a module - would be, even if you don't really use any. >It's nice to be able to unload the module to free up memory and make >netstat and other programs' output prettier. Prettier in the way >that you don't have extraneous output that's meaningless when there >are no ipv6 addresses configured. You should use ss -4 then if you want to not list IPv6 entries. And there is an IPv6 address configued, ::1, and IPv6 simply is the preferred protocolwhen making connections - after all, uptake has to start somewhere. >It's impossible to unload the ipv6 module when there's even one >interface with ipv6 functionality enabled, even when the interface >is administratively disabled/shutdown. Because it hooks so deep down into the system, that is only expected. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
