From: Jay Foster <jay@systech.com>
To: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Disable IPv6 at startup?
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3D7CAF.1020202@systech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jhjnjr$eo8$1@dough.gmane.org>
Perhaps the IPV6CTL_AUTO_LINKLOCAL sysctl() (enable
CYGPKG_NET_FREEBSD_SYSCTL) might work?
Jay
On 2/16/2012 12:06 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> What's the simplest/best way to "disable" IPv6 at runtime?
>
> For IPv4 if you never set up any addresses or routes, then that's
> "disabled enough" since it won't respond visibly to any IPv4 packets
> (AFAICT).
>
> However, for IPv6, there is a default link-local address and a
> link-local route -- so even if the user application never sets up any
> IPv6 configuration, the device will respond to IPv6 packets (neighbor
> discovery, ping, etc).
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-16 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 20:06 Grant Edwards
2012-02-16 21:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-02-16 21:53 ` [ECOS] " Grant Edwards
2012-02-16 22:01 ` Jay Foster [this message]
2012-02-17 17:45 ` Grant Edwards
2012-02-29 20:32 ` Grant Edwards
[not found] ` <jim732$s9l$1@dough.gmane.org>
2012-03-01 12:09 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-01 14:40 ` Grant Edwards
2012-03-01 17:24 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-01 19:19 ` Grant Edwards
2012-03-01 19:51 ` Sergei Gavrikov
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