Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-08 Thread Alexander Bochmann
Hi, ...on Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:15:14PM -0600, Todd T. Fries wrote: Between pf, 'ifconfig em0 -inet6' and 'echo family inet4 /etc/resolv.conf' you should have about all the anti v6 knobs a budding newbie should need. Thanks for putting all the required info into one place. Alex.

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-08 Thread russell
Hey! I use tn3270. Well actually c3270 as it is a bit saner when remapping keys. But I was very presently surprised to find tn3270 in base. Saved my day once. And thread hijack. As far as I can tell wscons does not send/set Shift+Fn keys. was sort of looking for them as I like to map that

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-07 Thread Janne Johansson
rhubbell wrote: Thanks for the assist. To me it's simply I don't need IPv6, I don't use IPv6. I don't want to see any errors from applications that want IPv6. You dont need tn3270 either, but strangely enough I never see how do I remove all files that give OpenBSD support for talking tn3270

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-07 Thread Henning Brauer
a kick out of how far folks here go out of their way not to help people out. Instead offering up non-sequitars, etc. Come on admit it, you don't know how to disable IPv6. Why does everyone place so much trust in OpenBSD when the kernel seems to be a mystery to most here with constant

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-06 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:16 PM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:59:53 -0800 Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel (via top-level GENERIC) but I can't see what other places

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-06 Thread Corey
I'll don the Nomex here and say that rather than turning IPv6 off, I just block it with pf. I don't know if that is what the OP wants, but it is relatively simple to do (as opposed to twiddling things in the kernel) and it keeps me from having to worry about any unexpected consequences of the

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-06 Thread Todd T. Fries
Penned by Corey on 20091206 13:52.42, we have: | I'll don the Nomex here and say that rather than turning IPv6 off, | I just block it with pf. I don't know if that is what the OP wants, | but it is relatively simple to do (as opposed to twiddling things in | the kernel) and it keeps me from

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
rhubbell wrote: I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#ProbIPv6 There's the official answer. Nick.

How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel (via top-level GENERIC) but I can't see what other places it needs to be disabled for other applications. Is it enabled per-application or is there some magic in a top-level Makefile somewhere? This IPv6 is like Whak-A-Mole. Or is it just so pervasive now that it

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread STeve Andre'
On Saturday 05 December 2009 14:25:02 rhubbell wrote: I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel (via top-level GENERIC) but I can't see what other places it needs to be disabled for other applications. Is it enabled per-application or is there some magic in a top-level Makefile somewhere? This IPv6

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:39:39 -0500 STeve Andre' wrote: You are free of course to make mods, but please understand that you are on your own for them. I suppose it could also be said that if Ha, yeah, I feel so alone. you need help in turning ipv6 off, you shouldn't--learn first how So you

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread STeve Andre'
On Saturday 05 December 2009 15:07:43 rhubbell wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:39:39 -0500 STeve Andre' wrote: You are free of course to make mods, but please understand that you are on your own for them. I suppose it could also be said that if Ha, yeah, I feel so alone. you need

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
on admit it, you don't know how to disable IPv6. Why does everyone place so much trust in OpenBSD when the kernel seems to be a mystery to most here with constant warnings about not fiddling with it Curiouser and curiouser.

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Jussi Peltola
not to help people out. Instead offering up non-sequitars, etc. Come on admit it, you don't know how to disable IPv6. Why does everyone place so much trust in OpenBSD when the kernel seems to be a mystery to most here with constant warnings about not fiddling with it At least some developers

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Johan Beisser
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:28:09 -0500 STeve Andre' wrote: mostly a waste of time, except for the educational aspects of what not to do. Thanks for the nice story. I get a kick out of how far folks here go out of their way

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Johan Beisser
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Jussi Peltola pe...@pelzi.net wrote: At least some developers hang on misc@ and surely know how to disable ipv6. The question is: do they care? In my experience, no.

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Jussi Peltola pe...@pelzi.net wrote: Come on admit it, you don't know how to disable IPv6. Why does everyone place so much trust in OpenBSD when the kernel seems to be a mystery to most here with constant warnings about not fiddling with it At least some

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Allie Daneman
man ifconfig...is a quick and easy way to disable inet6 on any interface. Beyond that I'm thinking sysctl, did you peruse around before posting ? Johan Beisser wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:28:09 -0500 STeve Andre' wrote:

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 12:57:58 -0800 Johan Beisser wrote: You could also do more digging around yourself. I'd say that applies to you, not me. (^:

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:01:34 -0500 Ted Unangst wrote: Other than adding rhubbell to the list of people who probably broke it themselves, not really. Nothing's broken here. Hope you didn't strain a muscle jumping to conclusions. (^: Well nothing other than the pervasiveness of IPv6 into every

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:52:35 +0200 Jussi Peltola wrote: ipv6. The question is: do they care? Not sure how care plays into this. A simple question that the folks here would rather not answer but instead would rather meander about.

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel (via top-level GENERIC) but I can't see what other places it needs to be disabled for other applications. Needs to be disabled ...to accomplish what goal? Saving of disk space?

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Johan Beisser
Feeding the troll, sorry. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:45 PM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: Not sure how care plays into this. A simple question that the folks here would rather not answer but instead would rather meander about. I gave you the file where GENERIC for all kernels is

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Brynet
Not sure how care plays into this. A simple question that the folks here would rather not answer but instead would rather meander about. Well you're especially chipper, now instead of whining on mailing lists.. how about you try helping yourself?

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread bofh
User: there's a knob I want to twiddle, but don't know how... Community: Don't User: but I wanna, I wanna. Developers: don't, really User: I know what I'm doing, so there Community: . User: why is everyone ignoring me? Where's the love? Everyone: it's hard to love the village idiot

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:43:32PM -0800, rhubbell wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:01:34 -0500 Ted Unangst wrote: Other than adding rhubbell to the list of people who probably broke it themselves, not really. Nothing's broken here. Hope you didn't strain a muscle jumping to

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:01:06 -0800 Johan Beisser wrote: Feeding the troll, sorry. Hi, fresh from high school? I gave you the file where GENERIC for all kernels is configured. Apparently you don't care enough to even read the thread. But it's ok, I don't care if you care or not. But thanks at

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:26:36 -0600 Marco Peereboom wrote: You are a sphincter of epic proportions. Sphincter's pretty important. So thanks! Le me turn on my care meter, oh look at that -10 on the 0 to 1 scale. Also looking back I see the question was ignored before. I can figure it

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:10:27 -0800 Allie Daneman wrote: man ifconfig...is a quick and easy way to disable inet6 on any interface. Beyond that I'm thinking sysctl, did you peruse around before posting ? It's not that simple. Applications still try IPv6 even when it's disabled in the kernel

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:59:53 -0800 Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel (via top-level GENERIC) but I can't see what other places it needs to be disabled for other applications. Needs to be disabled

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:08:30 -0500 Brynet wrote: Not sure how care plays into this. A simple question that the folks here would rather not answer but instead would rather meander about. Well you're especially chipper, now instead of whining on mailing lists.. how about you try helping

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 15:59, Sat 05 Dec 09, rhubbell wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:26:36 -0600 Marco Peereboom wrote: You are a sphincter of epic proportions. Sphincter's pretty important. So thanks! Le me turn on my care meter, oh look at that -10 on the 0 to 1 scale. Also looking back I

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:59:28PM -0800, rhubbell wrote: And please just ignore my posts if you care that much. finally you say something that I can relate to. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 16:02, Sat 05 Dec 09, rhubbell wrote: On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:10:27 -0800 Allie Daneman wrote: man ifconfig...is a quick and easy way to disable inet6 on any interface. Beyond that I'm thinking sysctl, did you peruse around before posting ? It's not that simple. Applications still

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 16:16, Sat 05 Dec 09, rhubbell wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:59:53 -0800 Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel (via top-level GENERIC) but I can't see what other places it needs to be disabled

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
Yeah you said that already. On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 19:17:28 -0600 Marco Peereboom wrote: fuck off troll On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:24:42PM -0800, rhubbell wrote: On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:08:30 -0500 Brynet wrote: Not sure how care plays into this. A simple question that the folks

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:07:03 +0100 Michiel van Baak wrote: Did you even bother to look at a tcpdump when you are running on a kernel without ipv6 support? Is there any ipv6 traffic when running on a kernel without ipv6 ? Again re-read the thread if you need to. Can read the reply to P.

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread rhubbell
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 02:07:00 + Jacob Meuser wrote: finally you say something that I can relate to. But couldn't resist, eh? (^:

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Brynet
rhubbell the top posting troll wrote: Yeah you said that already. Marco Peereboom wrote: fuck off troll You have asked your questions, quite impolitely.. many have responded regardless of this. Marco has kindly given you some further direction, the 'off' in 'fuck off' would indicate that

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:55:11PM -0800, rhubbell wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 02:07:00 + Jacob Meuser wrote: finally you say something that I can relate to. But couldn't resist, eh? (^: no, it was a test to see if you could take your own advice. since you won't, I am now sure you're

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Tomáš Bodžár
Which apps? I have secret for you ;-) Most of the apps from packages/ports is not from OpenBSD project, but from people/communities around the world. So please ask them what to do. In OpenBSD there are at least two ways how to disable IPv6 for whole system. And in case of problems with app

Re: How to disable IPv6?

2009-12-05 Thread Tomáš Bodžár
You are missing whole point of philosophy of OpenBSD. Snippet from one good book : The OpenBSD community generally expects users to be advanced computer users. They have written extensive documentation about OpenBSD, and expect people to be willing to read it. They're not interested in coddling