Testing -4 and -6

Robin H. Johnson robbat2 at gentoo.org
Thu Sep 21 06:35:39 UTC 2023


On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:02:51PM -0700, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have a recipe (or pointer to one) for how to get a system running 
> without any IPv6?
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

> I want something such that isc_net_probeipv6_bool() will return false.
> 
> Do we have to build our own kernel with some config variable turned off?
> Or will just not configuring any IPv6 interfaces be good enough?
> 
> Same for IPv4.
Not possible today to my knowledge to get a kernel with strictly
v6-only at the kernel layer. I think you might be able to delete all v4
addresses, but that isn't quite the same thing.

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