On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:29:02PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > So I would ask: why do you think you need to disable it? By default, > the system will have no v6 addresses configured and should not incur > delays due to this. Are you having a problem?
The system will have link-local addresses configured and anything that listens on ANY will take packets from them. Without a firewall configuration that blocks all IPv6 traffic on the Internet side, this can be very dangerous, effectively exposing services that were not exposed over IPv4. Thor
