Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-01-17, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards >> <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> How does one disable IPv6 for a particular interface? >>> >>> I want eth2 "up" but with no IP address. ?Just doing an "ifconfig eth2 >>> up" worked fine until I enabled IPv6 support in the kernel. ?Now I get >>> a link-local IPv6 address just by bringing the interface up -- and I >>> don't want one. >>> >>> Google has found me the anser for Debian, but for Gentoo all it found >>> was somebody else asking the qeustion (with no answers). >> >> I didn't try it myself, but what about sysctl? >> >> net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1 >> >> or something like that... > > That does it! > > The next question is what do I put in the Gentoo network configuration > file (/etc/conf.d/net) to get that result (eth2 up with no IP > addresses). >
/etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1 It may be sufficient to just use: net.ipv6.conf.eth0.autoconf=0 net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra=0 I'm just guessing that .autoconf corresponds to link-local addresses, though.
