turning off IPv6 support in BSD

Ryan J. Cavicchioni ryan at confabulator.net
Sun Nov 21 07:07:18 PST 2004


Isn't it supposed to be

ipv6_enable="NONE"

I could be wrong.

andrew clarke wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
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>>To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should
>>definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6.
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>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.
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>Regards
>Andrew
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