On Jan 17, 2012 11:56 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2012-01-17, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards > ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> How does one disable IPv6 for a particular interface? > >> > >> I want eth2 "up" but with no IP address. ?Just doing an "ifconfig eth2 > >> up" worked fine until I enabled IPv6 support in the kernel. ?Now I get > >> a link-local IPv6 address just by bringing the interface up -- and I > >> don't want one. > >> > >> Google has found me the anser for Debian, but for Gentoo all it found > >> was somebody else asking the qeustion (with no answers). > > > > I didn't try it myself, but what about sysctl? > > > > net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1 > > > > or something like that... > > That does it! > > The next question is what do I put in the Gentoo network configuration > file (/etc/conf.d/net) to get that result (eth2 up with no IP > addresses). >
You don't. Put it in /etc/sysctl.conf instead. Rgds,
