(usagi-users 04051) Re: Question on disabling IPv6 on specific interfaces.

Hi,

Its not possible to disable creation of link-local addresses on IPv6 interfaces.
The networking code related to autoconfiguration of link local addresses has
no check w.r.t. to the proc file variable.

This variable/setting is only used to enable/disable configuration of
global addresses.

Regards,
Sabari


On 5/19/08, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'd like to be able to disable the auto-creation of IPv6 addresses on
> certain interfaces.
>
> I'm currently using Fedora Core 8, kernel 2.6.24
>
> I tried adding:
>
> IPV6INIT=no
> IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
>
> to my ifcfg-eth1 file.
>
> But, even if I manually set autoconf to 0 with this command:
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth1/autoconf
>
> It is always set to 1 after I do an 'ifdown eth1; ifup eth1'
> and I have an IPv6 address magically created on eth1.
>
> Any ideas how to get this to stick?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Greear <[email protected]>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>
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