Turning off ipv6

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 18:31 +1000, Dan Irwin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know ipv6 is going to be in all our futures, but for the moment it's
> > just a PITA. My ISP doesn't support it
> 
> If you're ISP doesn't support it, you should connect to a tunnel
> broker. Fedora is most capable of doing that, though there can be a
> few issues relating to NAT and port forwarding if you are behind a
> cheap and nasty router or cpe.
> 
> You should then email your isp and demand an IPv6 connection. They
> won't be able to provide you with one, but if enough people start
> asking, isps will start to provide ipv6.
> 
> http://tunnelbroker.net

No doubt IP6 will eventually arrive because it will become necessary,
but the chances of a significant number of end-users "demanding" it are
close to zero as long as it provides no obvious benefit to them. And I
include myself in that group.

poc