Re: Installer Feature Request: Add an option to manually disable IPv6 by calling dhcpcp -4

Thomas Dettbarn <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jan 2025 12:56:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/6/25 12:52 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 12:31:41PM +0100, Thomas Dettbarn wrote:
>> We COULD start an awesome use-case discussion by now: Me thinking of a
>> scenario where you set up a NetBSD system somewhere in a big company
>> or university, with a hard-to-reach IT-department....
> And a broken network setup so that IPv6 routers exist and are
> advertized but do not work?
>
> Hard to imagine in this context.
>
> Martin

Yes! Exactly!!!

Which is why I am proposing a simple solution to prepare for
the unimaginable: Add an option that calls "dhcpcd -4" instead
of "dhcpcd".


Thomas