Native Java plugin on FreeBSD

Panagiotis Astithas past at noc.ntua.gr
Fri Mar 5 07:18:10 PST 2004


Peter Schuller wrote:
> With Firefox it resulted in a JVM crash (right click -> java console on a 
> failed applet). With mozilla I have had problems at least once I'm pretty 
> sure but when I just tried it the console popped up, reveiling the error too 
> - it's defaulting to ipv6. Where would I configure Java environment variables 
> (-Dxxxx=y) for use with the browser?
> 
> (I need to set -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true)

If you build the latest jdk14 port (1.4.2p6_3) you won't get IPv6 
support by default.

Cheers,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece


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