Thanks to everybody for their suggestions. Hans' suggestions were particulary helpful to get a quick solution. I would like to try the firmware but I haven't had any luck with firmware when I've tried it. When I did a google for it all I got was an article about it. I am still wondering what a router would add to the situation, if anything. Somebody has told me that the Qwest modem is a router.
To answer your questions:
> I found these directions for diabling ipv6. Does this look about > right? I don't know - did it make a difference?
The changes to the /etc/modprobe.d/aliases file did make a difference, but the changes to the /etc/sysctl.conf file didn't seem to make a difference. He didn't say what the changes were supposed to do. My sysctl.conf file didn't have any lines that looked like the lines he suggested putting in so I just threw them in at the end of the file but when I commented them out it didn't seem to make a difference. Do you suppose his file had lines that looked like that but mine didn't? Also, what is autoconf and ipv6? And how do the two lines alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off stop ipv6 from loading? I was particularly wondering why the second line.
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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEgYwn/JjozeCq1GARAlTaAJ4kg4KtXNn6bErzE+UX56WwEbQhewCdGYxS y6+F2TIVa6DuBS9dquv7cmc= =2PNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
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