On Sunday 13 June 2004 01:07, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On Saturday 12 June 2004 23:33, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
> > hi lugs
> >
> > whenever i disable ipv6 support from the kernel (2.6) and recompile, i
> > still find that ifconfig eth0 gives me a default ipv6 address ( which i
> > do not want - see below):
>
> On which distribution is this, SuSE or DeadRat (not that it really matters,
> but trend following could help)?
SuSE 9.1 Pro (not deadrat :) )
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:E2:BB:39
> > inet addr:146.64.28.46 Bcast:146.64.28.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> > inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:fee2:bb39/64 Scope:Link
> > inet6 addr: 3ffe:2900:fffa:3:20d:56ff:fee2:bb39/64 Scope:Global
>
> Well, I have this too on my laptop, SuSE 9.1 Pro with default 2.6 kernel:
>
> the-host:/ # ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:DD:77:55:B2
> inet addr:172.16.0.31 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::202:ddff:fe77:55b2/64 Scope:Link
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:24720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:25637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:2184880 (2.0 Mb) TX bytes:34204343 (32.6 Mb)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
>
> > this means i manually have to do:
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 del fe80::20d:56ff:fee2:bb39/64
> > ifconfig eth0 del 3ffe:2900:fffa:3:20d:56ff:fee2:bb39/64
>
> Your v4 address should continue to work fine, as it will be chosen by
> default, whether you have the v6 address or not.
that should usually be the case.. but not this time :)
> > which i dont want too (neither do i want to write a script to do this) :)
>
> It could make your life simpler if you did :).
already did that actually, but that is "adhoc" way of solving the problem :)
> > problem is that the current smtp server cant map this ipv6 address
> > against any hostname.. (which server i have no control over..)
>
> Which SMTP server is this, Exim? If so, I had similar problems at some
> point, not only with Exim but also with Courier. There are 2 things you can
> do:
>
> o Compile Exim/Courier from source and disable v6 support
>
> o Or edit the Exim configuration file and add this line:
>
> local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
well, i already said i have no control over that smtp server. solution is to
probably run my own smtp server and configure it to deliver through the the
"other server".. i think that might work.
thanks though Mzee Mark!
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