On 2012-01-17, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards
><[email protected]> 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).
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