disabling ipv6 with ppp

[Brian Somers]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:44:33 +0100, Hanspeter Roth <hampi at rootshell.be> wrote:
>   On Mar 21 at 13:55, Brian Somers spoke:
> 
> > Use ``disable ipv6'' - see the man page.
> 
> Ok, I've put ``disable ipv6'' as well as ``disable ipv6cp'' into the
> config file. But nevertheless
> ff02::%tun0/32                    fe80::20f:3dff:feae:5416%tun0 UGS        tun0
> appears anyway and 22 seconds after ppp is started a dialup
> connection is established.

disable ipv6 and disable ipv6cp are synonymous.  It sounds as if your
kernel is built with INET6 support.

> > Put ``NOINET6=true'' in /etc/make.conf to make IPv6 go away entirely.
> 
> It is not obvious wether only the kernel has to be rebuilt or the
> entire world.

make.conf will just cover world.  You need to remove ``options INET6''
from your kernel config to affect that.

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Brian Somers                                          <brian at Awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !               <brian at FreeBSD.org>