disabling ipv6 with ppp

[Brian Somers]

Use ``disable ipv6'' - see the man page.
Put ``NOINET6=true'' in /etc/make.conf to make IPv6 go away entirely.

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:45:24 +0100, Hanspeter Roth <hampi at rootshell.be> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using ppp. Even though INET6 is disabled in the kernel there is
> some INET6 stuff configured. Netstat -rn shows: 
> 
> ...
> Internet6:
> Destination                       Gateway                       Flags      Netif Expire
> ::1                               ::1                           UH          lo0
> fe80::%lo0/64                     fe80::1%lo0                   U           lo0
> fe80::1%lo0                       link#4                        UHL         lo0
> ff01::/32                         ::1                           U           lo0
> ff02::%lo0/32                     ::1                           UC          lo0
> ff02::%tun0/32                    fe80::20f:3dff:feae:5416%tun0 UGS        tun0
> 
> The last route to 'ff02::%tun0/32' appears only if ppp is running.
> Some seconds after ppp is startet (ppp -quiet -auto isp) it goes
> online. Trying to delete the route by hand claims it is a bad
> address:
> 
> 	route delete 'ff02::%tun0/32'
> route: bad address: ff02::%tun0/32
> 
> How can I run ppp without INET6 support?
> 
> -Hanspeter
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