turning off IPv6 support in BSD
andrew clarke
mail at ozzmosis.com
Sun Nov 21 07:05:50 PST 2004
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should
> definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6.
I suppose it would be a good idea to remove IPv6 support from hosts on
IPv4-only intranets because it's then one less thing to worry about from
a security point of view. Plus, of course, marginally less overhead in
the kernel.
Regards
Andrew
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