Fwd: [GLLUG] IPV6

[Asenchi]

Sorry I accidentially posted off list, but I found this in the
ifconfig man page.  I would suggest not disabling IPv6 as more and
more programs are building support for it.

I am curious, why do people want to disable it?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Asenchi <asenchi at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2006 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] IPV6
To: Jim Fick <jfick at mphi.org>

Oh by the way, found this in ifconfig also:

BUGS
     Basic IPv6 node operation requires a link-local address on each interface
     configured for IPv6.  Normally, such an address is automatically config-
     ured by the kernel on each interface added to the system; this behaviour
     may be disabled by setting the sysctl MIB variable
     net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal to 0.

     If you delete such an address using ifconfig, the kernel may act very
     oddly.  Do this at your own risk.

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