Re: Permanent Use of IPv4
On 02/15/2019 12:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Reco composed on 2019-02-15 19:48 (UTC+0300):
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:17:06AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
I made ipv6.disable=1 a standard option here at least as far back as 2011. If it ever caused a
problem I never found out about it.
That's a fine example of "works for me" approach.
And I've seen multiple cases where "disable IPv6" equaled "non-booting OS".
Maybe I left out an important point, which is that "for me" means hundreds of installations
including most of the historically most popular distros, Debian, *buntu, Mint, Fedora, openSUSE,
Mageia, Gentoo and a few others.
I have a hard time imagining a dependency on ipv6 to be able to boot, even including thin client or
PXE, but then I don't know anything of any prospect of booting from outside a firewall where ipv6
might be a sole option.
Thanks for all of the responses.
I elected to go with;
echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1' > /etc/sysctl.d/noipv6.conf
which did, indeed, result in the file being created.
However, there is only one problem, it didn't work.
This is what I get:
root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether bc:ee:7b:5e:83:36 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.123/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic enp2s0
valid_lft 86306sec preferred_lft 86306sec
inet6 2600:1700:4280:3690::2b/128 scope global dynamic
valid_lft 3506sec preferred_lft 3506sec
inet6 2600:1700:4280:3690:a445:78de:cff9:22d5/64 scope global
temporary dynamic
valid_lft 3538sec preferred_lft 3538sec
inet6 2600:1700:4280:3690:beee:7bff:fe5e:8336/64 scope global
mngtmpaddr noprefixroute dynamic
valid_lft 3538sec preferred_lft 3538sec
inet6 fe80::beee:7bff:fe5e:8336/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Also, /proc/cmdline is empty.
Now, if I run the file manually, as I have been doing, I get:
root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ./Disable_ipv6
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether bc:ee:7b:5e:83:36 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.123/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic enp2s0
valid_lft 86274sec preferred_lft 86274sec
root@AbNormal:/home/comp#
Next suggestions, please.
Thanks in advance.
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