From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: disabling ipv6 (when ipv6 module is already loaded or built in)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:17:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103251817.04583.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
There are two options for disabling some ipv6 functionality in ipv6 module -
disable and disable_ipv6. The second option is also available as sysctl and
can be switched runtime.
First is nicer because it also prevents apps from creating sockets by using
socket(AF_INET6, ...). Various apps use AF_INET6 socket creation to deterine
if ipv6 is supported on the system. Unfortunately "disable" one doesn't exist
as sysctl and this is a problem.
Is it possible to make "disable" sysctl option, too? Currently there is no
runtime way to disable ipv6 (or I'm unaware of such way).
Thanks,
--
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
next reply other threads:[~2011-03-25 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-25 17:17 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2011-03-25 20:22 ` disabling ipv6 (when ipv6 module is already loaded or built in) Brian Haley
2011-03-25 22:53 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-03-25 22:56 ` David Miller
2011-03-27 21:19 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-03-27 21:24 ` David Miller
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