Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4
gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings folks;
>
> Let me say first that I'm around 150 miles from any ipv6 capable network,
> just to get that out of the way.
>
> Its booted to a text login and the first thing I did was import a saved
> copy of the hosts file, and added rpi4-20220122.coyote.den with an alias
> of rpi42 to that file. Then I edited /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0 to
> set a static address, and added a dns-nameserver 192.168.xx.1 line to it,
> my router and gateway, and a second additional line to set /proc/sys/
> net/.../eth0/disable_ipv6 to a 1. And I've checked, disable_ipv6 is now a
> 1.
>
> But that's not enough, ip a, after a /e/i/networking restart, still shows
> its active, so I assume its sending its dns request out the ipv6 portal
> and my router is a dummy load for anything ipv6. So I can ping all the
> local machines, but cannot look up yahoo.com.
>
I'm not sure - I think dns uses mostly ipv6 - but I can't tell for sure. I
have it on my todo list to get familiar with ipv6 and until then I also
refuse to use it.
> So question one:
> So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally
> kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything?
>
AFAIR it is a module (or could be compiled as module) so disabling ipv6 will
nuke it
> This ought to be in a faq somewhere. Except everybody has their own
> method. :(
>
> And question 2:
> I noticed also, there is not a first user, can I assume the first time
> adduser gets run it will assign him/her/it as user 1000 AND will put that
> user into sudoers?
>
yes first user will have ID 1000, but I am not sure it is added
automatically to sudoers
> Again, this is the 20220121 bookworm.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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