3 commits - en_US/colophon.xml en_US/networkconfig.xml en_US/other-instmethods.xml
David Nalley
ke4qqq at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 4 21:39:27 UTC 2008
en_US/colophon.xml | 2 +-
en_US/networkconfig.xml | 28 +++++++---------------------
en_US/other-instmethods.xml | 8 +++-----
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit dc6e149163e2290114d0a96ae491490d5366dbe2
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date: Tue Nov 4 16:38:44 2008 -0500
last of changes for ticket 26 - changed networkconfig.xml annotating new ipv6 data
diff --git a/en_US/networkconfig.xml b/en_US/networkconfig.xml
index 5ea0f9c..5fad0db 100644
--- a/en_US/networkconfig.xml
+++ b/en_US/networkconfig.xml
@@ -26,28 +26,14 @@
<indexterm>
<primary>IPv4</primary>
</indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>IPv6</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>&DISTRO; contains complete support for both
- <firstterm>IPv4</firstterm> and <firstterm>IPv6</firstterm>. By
+ <para>&DISTRO; contains support for both
+ <firstterm>IPv4</firstterm> and <firstterm>IPv6</firstterm>. However, by
default, &DISTRO; configures network interfaces on your computer for
- both IPv4 and IPv6 support, and to use DHCP over both IPv4 and IPv6.
- For more information about IPv6, refer to <ulink
- url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6"/>.</para>
- <para>Many home Internet routers and firewalls do not include
- support for IPv6. The default settings will not harm your system or
- router in any way. However, the speed of some services improves
- drastically if you disable IPv6 on any interface on a network that
- does not use IPv6.</para>
- <tip>
- <title>IPv6 and Boot Options</title>
- <para>You can disable IPv6 support in the installation program using
- the boot option <option>noipv6</option>. The installation program
- does not configure network interfaces for IPv6 if you use this
- option. For more information on boot options, refer to <xref
- linkend="ap-admin-options"/>.</para>
- </tip>
+ IPv4, and to use DHCP via <application>NetworkManager</application>.
+ Currently <application>NetworkManager</application> does not support
+ IPv6. If your network only supports IPv6 you should use
+ <application>system-config-network</application> after installation to
+ configure your network interfaces. </para>
<note>
<title>Modem Configuration</title>
commit bf7596929bac68e07aac55bfb8ca524d076c94bc
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date: Tue Nov 4 16:30:05 2008 -0500
changed other-instmethods to reflect that NM doesn't support IPv6 currently ref: ticket 26
diff --git a/en_US/other-instmethods.xml b/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
index 182df81..092319a 100644
--- a/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
+++ b/en_US/other-instmethods.xml
@@ -199,11 +199,9 @@
(DHCP)</guilabel>.
</para>
<para>
- The installation program supports both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. If
- you are not sure which addressing scheme your network uses, it is
- safe to leave both options selected. Refer also to <xref
- linkend="ch-networkconfig"/> for more information on configuring
- your network.
+ The installation program supports only the IPv4 protocol.
+ Refer also to <xref linkend="ch-networkconfig"/> for more
+ information on configuring your network.
</para>
<note>
<title>DHCP Responses Take Time</title>
commit 5d114623b21fef37998327e5d1c0ceb73ba8b09c
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date: Tue Nov 4 13:43:14 2008 -0500
changed co-publisher to publisher in colophon.xml
diff --git a/en_US/colophon.xml b/en_US/colophon.xml
index e78a734..43eee90 100644
--- a/en_US/colophon.xml
+++ b/en_US/colophon.xml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
Erick Lemon (writer) </para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KarstenWade"> Karsten Wade</ulink> (writer, editor, co-publisher)</para>
+ <ulink url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KarstenWade"> Karsten Wade</ulink> (writer, editor, publisher)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
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