turning off IPv6 support in BSD

andrew clarke mail at ozzmosis.com
Sun Nov 21 07:05:50 PST 2004


On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:

> To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should
> definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6.

I suppose it would be a good idea to remove IPv6 support from hosts on
IPv4-only intranets because it's then one less thing to worry about from
a security point of view.  Plus, of course, marginally less overhead in
the kernel.

Regards
Andrew


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