Proposal: Fedora should install with IPv6 disabled by default [was: Re: Disabling ipv6]

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 18:49:03 UTC 2013


On 12.07.2013 18:44, Fernando Lozano wrote:
…
> So, ifconfig or ip or whatever would have to disable IPv6 for any
> interface that does not having an explicit IPv6 address. I'd think it
> would be easier to have the default eth*-cfg files and Network Manager
> disable IPv6 unless the user tells them to enable.

Looks like you're reading a lot of documents, so it wouldn't be bad to
also read these[1] quite simple guidelines.
Take into consideration that some of distro binaries are built with an
IPv6 on mind.


poma


[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt




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