Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Walter Hofmann
Hello:- I have ipv6 and net-pf-10 disabled in /etc/modules.conf, deleted the ipv6 module from /lib/modules and rebooted to unload the module. HOWEVER, some programs (telnet, ssh) still look for records in DNS and only when this fails look for A records. This slows everything down. How ca

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Jason Martens wrote: Jörg Harmuth wrote: Sorry, forgot to send it to the list, my fault. btb schrieb: On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.22, Jörg Harmuth wrote: Hi Ben, what is the proper approach to achieving this? I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works correctly without ipv6 (I ha

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
btb wrote: On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.22, Jörg Harmuth wrote: Hi Ben, what is the proper approach to achieving this? I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works correctly without ipv6 (I had problem without ipv6 some time ago, but I can't really recall what was up there) why not

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Jason Martens
Jörg Harmuth wrote: Sorry, forgot to send it to the list, my fault. btb schrieb: On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.22, Jörg Harmuth wrote: Hi Ben, what is the proper approach to achieving this? I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works correctly without ipv6 (I had problem without ipv

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 21:56 +0100, Jörg Harmuth wrote: > btb schrieb: > > > > > On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.22, Jörg Harmuth wrote: > > > >> Hi Ben, > >> > >>> > >>> what is the proper approach to achieving this? > >>> > >> I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works > >> correct

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Jörg Harmuth
Sorry, forgot to send it to the list, my fault. btb schrieb: On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.22, Jörg Harmuth wrote: Hi Ben, what is the proper approach to achieving this? I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works correctly without ipv6 (I had problem without ipv6 some time ago, but

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread btb
On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.49, Niall Sheridan wrote: On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:44 -0600, Jason Martens wrote: The logic seems kind of backward, but it works. Just remember to run update-modules (as root) after you edit this file. For 2.4 yes. For 2.6 no - edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases. Jason Niall does

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread btb
On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.44, Jason Martens wrote: btb wrote: hello- i have kernel 2.6.8 - and am having difficulty understanding how to properly keep the ipv6 module from loading. initially, i included it in the hotplug blacklist, along with a few others, but this didn't work. the other modules w

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread btb
On Nov 18, 2004, at 14.22, Jörg Harmuth wrote: Hi Ben, what is the proper approach to achieving this? I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works correctly without ipv6 (I had problem without ipv6 some time ago, but I can't really recall what was up there) why not compile a

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Niall Sheridan
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:44 -0600, Jason Martens wrote: > The logic seems kind of backward, but it works. Just remember to run > update-modules (as root) after you edit this file. > For 2.4 yes. For 2.6 no - edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases. > Jason > Niall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Jason Martens
btb wrote: hello- i have kernel 2.6.8 - and am having difficulty understanding how to properly keep the ipv6 module from loading. initially, i included it in the hotplug blacklist, along with a few others, but this didn't work. the other modules were not loaded, but ipv6 still was. i believe,

Re: disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread Jörg Harmuth
Hi Ben, what is the proper approach to achieving this? I don't know what the proper approach is, but if everything works correctly without ipv6 (I had problem without ipv6 some time ago, but I can't really recall what was up there) why not compile a kernel without ipv6 support ? This defenitely

disabling ipv6 kernel module

2004-11-18 Thread btb
hello- i have kernel 2.6.8 - and am having difficulty understanding how to properly keep the ipv6 module from loading. initially, i included it in the hotplug blacklist, along with a few others, but this didn't work. the other modules were not loaded, but ipv6 still was. i believe, if i under