Fwd: [GLLUG] IPV6

[STeve Andre']

This question touches on the question of why people want to change
kernels in the first place.  In the *BSD world the kernels are configed
pretty well, and changing things just "because" is a form of knob-
twiddling, which isn't reasonable.  If you are trying to run on something
like a 486 box with 32M of ram I suppose snipping things out makes
a little sense, but on a modern system, why bother?  Random fiddling
can teach you things,  but I don't do it on any systems that I actually
*use*.  In six years of OpenBSD I have never had to run something
other than the stock generic kernel.

--STeve Andre'

On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:11, Asenchi wrote:
> 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.