em1 down in nm, yet it has an IPv6 address

Dan Irwin rummymobile at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 00:26:00 UTC 2014


Dan Williams replied over on the NetworkManager list. He suggested
rebuilding and installing NetworkManager from F21.

This seems to work fine. No v6 addresses or routes for em1.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> On 09/11/14 14:37, Dan Irwin wrote:
> > There are other fixes, like disconnecting the gige connection to my
> laptop docking station. Or maybe turn wifi off and use only the gige. But
> If i use the laptop away from my desk and come back, the problem will bite
> once more.
> >
> > Something else i find disconcerting. There must be very few users
> running Linux on a laptop, with IPv6, with wifi and gige connections. Maybe
> they just get pissed off and go elsewhere when things like google or
> facebook fail to load. My biggest problem is maintaining connections to the
> local kdc and various internal services which present as dual stack.
> >
> > I am seriously quite tempted to disable IPv6 on the subnets to which I
> connect.
>
> If you only want to disable it on your laptop and/or a given interface you
> can always edit /etc/sysctl.conf to include this line....
>
> net.ipv6.conf.interfacename.disable_ipv6=1
>
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