On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:07, Olivier Blin wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 02:50:46 +0100
>
> Olivier Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:23:35 +0100
> >
> > Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Another thing. I noticed ivp6 was loaded per default, why is that?
> >
> > Hum, you're right, I don't know why, perhaps a wrong module
> > dependency.
>
> It's loaded by the network init script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network) :
>
> -----
> # If IPv6 is explicitly configured, make sure it's available.
> if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then
It must be defined in your /etc/sysconfig/network
> alias=`modprobe -c | awk '/^alias net-pf-10 / { print $3 }'`
> if [ "$alias" != "ipv6" -a ! -f /proc/net/if_inet6 ]; then
> case "$(modprobe -V 2>/dev/null)" in
> modprobe* )
> echo "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" >>
> /etc/modules.conf
> ;;
> module-init-tools* )
> echo "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" >>
> /etc/modprobe.conf
> ;;
> esac
> fi
> fi
> -----
>
> $ grep ipv6 /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias
> alias net-pf-10 ipv6
>
> An alias is made to ipv6 in modules configuration files, so the
> network script loads it.
> I don't know if it's the correct behaviour what do you think ?
>
> I'm cc-ing Andrey because he's the author of modprobe configuration
> files, so he's likely to help us :)
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