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Re: rmmod of ipv6 is not working.Help!



In article <4177638F.4070507@bluewin.ch> (at Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:21:51 +0200), Guido Roeskens <groeskens@bluewin.ch> says:

> As long as an interface is up you cannot unload a module.
:

Regardless of the existence of IPv6 addresses, 
you cannot rmmod the ipv6 module.

> >>Is "reboot" the only option we are left with?
> >>Please let me know the info.
> > 
> > 
> > at the moment you're not allowed to unload the ipv6 module from the kernel. 
> > that was a design choice taken from linux kernel developers.
> > 
> I'm not sure wheter this is the case. You can try the method above,
> but I may be wrong.

You simply cannot remove ipv6 module.

--yoshfuji



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