disable IPv6?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/25/2013 05:45 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> writes:
>> On 01/24/2013 10:22 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Once upon a time, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> said:
>>>> My system at work seems to take a long time to start
>>>> the network. I have this suspicion it is waiting for
>>>> an IPv6 DHCP server to respond (which won't happen).
>>> It looks like the F18 install writes out ifcfg-* files with
>>> "DHCPV6C=yes", which should probably not be set by default, especially
>>> since so few environments (even IPv6 environments) will have a IPv6 DHCP
>>> server.  Comment out that line or set it to "no" and it should fix the
>>> slowdown.
>> RA will be more common.  That is what I have.
> +1
>
> Belts and suspenders: check both.
>
> The ISP's that give you IPv6 addresses (Comcast for one) will also use
> dhcp to give you a whole 64-bit network of addresses via DHCP-PD.

My ISP gave me a /48 allocation  :)

>
> I'm curious how many of the people that are disabling their IPv6
> actually have painless access to IPv6 and are ignoring it.
>
> -wolfgang