INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

[Vadim Goncharov]

Hi Andy Dills! 

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:40:20 -0500 (EST); Andy Dills wrote about 'Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?':

>> O.K., have snipped all the above IPv4 stuff, which actually seems quite
>> reaosnable (though appears to foorget about STF), but this line...
>> 
>>> In the meantime, I'd like to only enable IPv6 on IPv6 enabled networks.
>> 
>> ...I fail to see how not wanting to enable it leads to you wanting
>> to remove it from the kernel entirely ? That is the bit I don't understand
>> about all of this discussion. Theres probably hundereds of bits in the kernel
>> you havent enabled and don't use, why specificly do you want an option
>> to take IPV6 out ?
>> 
>> I am genuinely piuzzled - why isn't "ipv6_enabled="NO" sufficient ? That's
>> what I do on IPv4 networks and it works fine for me.
> That's actually a good point. I've had a hard time shedding my "trim 
> everything I don't use out of the kernel" mentality over the years.

Makes it harder to debug, etc. Don't want to see anything IPv6 related in
command output, to let programs to bind on IPv6 addresses, etc.

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