Re: I need to totally stop ANY indication of ipv6 connectivity, how.

[Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>]

	Hi.

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 06:25:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 25 May 2019 05:54:46 am Reco wrote:
> 
> > 	Hi.
> >
> > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 05:38:22AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > I have the following in /etc/sysctl.conf:
> > >
> > > net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
> > > net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
> >
> > These are redundant:
> > > net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
> > > net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1
> > > net.ipv6.conf.eth1.disable_ipv6 = 1
> > > net.ipv6.conf.ppp0.disable_ipv6 = 1
> > > net.ipv6.conf.tun0.disable_ipv6 = 1
> > >
> > > but its not enough to stop this from ip a:
> > > : eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
> > > : state
> > >
> > > UP group default qlen 1000
> > >     link/ether 00:1f:c6:62:fc:bb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff <--ipv6 crap.
> >
> > No. That's MAC address of your NIC, hence "link/ether". IPv6 entries
> > start with "inet6".
> >
> > Reco
> 
> Then the configure script in the amanda-master (3.5.1 tarball) I just 
> downloaded from salsa is in error.

If the build system of a software depends on whenever builder has IPv6
or not - that software is broken. I say more - if building a software
requires network connectivity it's the reason not to use such software
at all.

Reco