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| Thread ID: 81604 | 2007-08-01 20:32:00 | Linux & IPv6 Botch-Up? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 575081 | 2007-08-03 12:40:00 | You don't need to compile the kernel without IPv6. Just turn it off if it's not needed.Well yes, but recompiling the kernel is more efficient and almost as easy. Plus it prevents the occasional program that will want to turn it back on... | Erayd (23) | ||
| 575082 | 2007-08-04 05:58:00 | True, you can recompile the kernel so that there is no ipv6 support in any distro. Only Gentoo (as far as I'm aware) can you disable ipv6 capabilities in all apps system-wide You can tun IPv6 off system-wide in Mandriva by adding NETWORKING_IPV6=no to /etc/sysconfig/network However, even with IPv6 enabled this I've not noticed any real slowness. |
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| 575083 | 2007-08-05 04:22:00 | If it's disabled, the IPv6 doesn't do anything. You can waste many hours making things "efficient", and save seconds in a year. Savings from efficiency are strange and elusive things. I remember when Air New Zealand bought Rolls Royce engines for the DC10s, allegedly because they were more fuel efficient than P&W. The saving was to be $1M a year. The extra cost was $40M. We didn't have those planes for 40 years. :( |
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