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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Subject: Re: echo > 0 .../disable_ipv6 broken in 2.6.37-rc4
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:39:10 -0800
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Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>> In 2.6.37-rc4 ipv6 can be disabled not enabled.
>> The last kernel I have tested and know this works on is 2.6.33.
>
> I'm pretty sure I could successfully re-enable IPv6 on non-loopback
> interfaces (wlan0, eth0) on net-2.6 pulled a little after 2.6.37-rc1.
> I didn't try lo though. Does re-enabling IPv6 on a "real" interface
> still work?

Interesting that case seems to work.

Eric