Does a 'modprobe ipv6' have any effect?

Scott Rohling

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Tom Duerbusch
<duerbus...@stlouiscity.com>wrote:

> I've been getting the "MARTIAN SOURCE 192.168.195.255 FROM 192.168.193.176,
> ON DEV ETH0" on one of my test machines for two months.
>
> So I decided to check it out and see if I can fix the problem.
>
> Per a Google search, I found a suggestion  which looked reasonable:
>
> More details would be needed.
> ifconfig -a
> route -n
> cat /etc/sysconfig/network/routes
>
> When I did them, I saw that IPV6 was up and running.  I thought some of my
> playing around caused IPV6 to be enabled.  I didn't realize that IPV6 comes
> up by default and we are not IPV6 on our network, so I decided to see what
> happens when I disable it.
>
> So, yast, network, network settings, Global Options tab, and disable IPv6,
> save it and reboot.
>
> Of course now, I can't get in (other than via the console).
> I lost my eth0 adapter:
>
> ifconfig  -a
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:100 (100.0 b)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
>
> linux76:~ #
>
>
> I tried to add eth0 back in:
>
> ifconfig eth0 add fe80::200:100:100:14/64
> No support for INET6 on this system.
> linux76:~ #
>
> But I don't know how to add support for INET6 via the command line
> interface.
>
> This is SLES 11 SP 1.
>
> No big deal in recreating this system.  But it would be an interesting
> learning exercise in recovering from my failure.
>
> Tom Duerbusch
> THD Consulting
>
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