On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 at 18:20 -0600, Russel Caldwell wrote: > I took out one of the IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf and Firefox behaves > much better but it will just get repopulated with the same addresses on the > next boot, is that right?
Yes, unless you do something different. Some dhcp clients can be told to leave /etc/resolv.conf alone, that's one option. Another is to not use DHCP at all as has been suggested. > I found these directions for diabling ipv6. Does this look about > right? I don't know - did it make a difference? > I made 2 changes before I rebooted, so I can't be certain which one (or > both?) actually had the effect of disabling ipv6 on boot. > > 1. vi /etc/sysctl.conf - add > net.ipv6.conf.eth1.autoconf = 0 > net.ipv6.conf.eth0.autoconf = 0 > net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf = 0 > net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf = 0 > net.ipv6.conf.lo.autoconf = 0 I'd be interested to know what these were set to before. Probably 1? What is autoconf supposed to do? > 2. vi /etc/modprobe.d/aliases - changed > #alias net-pf-10 ipv6 > #to > alias net-pf-10 off > # and added > alias ipv6 off This keeps the ipv6 module from loading. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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