kern/104920: ipv6 can only be disabled by editing kernel
Jo Rhett
jrhett at svcolo.com
Mon Oct 30 03:50:09 UTC 2006
>Number: 104920
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: ipv6 can only be disabled by editing kernel
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 30 03:50:07 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jo Rhett
>Release: 6.2-BETA2
>Organization:
Silicon Valley Colocation
>Environment:
>Description:
For some time now the release notes for REL6 have indicated that ipv6_enable should disable all ipv6 support. It still doesn't as of beta2.
There is clearly a push for people to run GENERIC, but choices like this make it completely impossible for security-conscious sites to do so. Can we please provide an option to completely disable ipv6 support in /etc/rc.conf?
>How-To-Repeat:
Put ipv6_enable in /etc/rc.conf
Reboot
ifconfig -a shows inet6 information for each interface.
netstat -nr shows numerous ipv6 routes.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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