INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

[Andy Dills]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Pete French wrote:

> O.K., have snipped all the above IPv4 stuff, which actually seems quite
> reaosnable (though appears to foorget about STF), but this line...
> 
> > In the meantime, I'd like to only enable IPv6 on IPv6 enabled networks.
> 
> ...I fail to see how not wanting to enable it leads to you wanting
> to remove it from the kernel entirely ? That is the bit I don't understand
> about all of this discussion. Theres probably hundereds of bits in the kernel
> you havent enabled and don't use, why specificly do you want an option
> to take IPV6 out ?
> 
> I am genuinely piuzzled - why isn't "ipv6_enabled="NO" sufficient ? That's
> what I do on IPv4 networks and it works fine for me.

That's actually a good point. I've had a hard time shedding my "trim 
everything I don't use out of the kernel" mentality over the years.

Andy

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