Re: [gentoo-user] Disable IPv6 on an interface?

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards 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 brin

[gentoo-user] Disable IPv6 on an interface?

2012-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
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