Re: [Bug 528934] Re: IPv6shouldn’tbe disabled by default in libvirt

[Philipp Kern]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:04:43AM -0000, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> And yes, IPv6 would work correctly when you apply this patch. The
> original intent of the upstream bug report was that the virbrX interface
> was receiving RA’s from client VMs. Upstream patched it by way of both
> settings accept_ra=0 and disable_ipv6=1, though only the former is only
> necessary to fix the problem, which is exactly the behaviour that my
> patch fixes.

I somehow recall that the ipv6 forwarding sysctl sets accept_ra=0.
Furthermore I don't like software messing with my sysctls at all, but
maybe that's just me.  (I.e. one should be able to set sysctls by
yourself too and being able to turn that sysctl setting off entirely.)

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern

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IPv6 shouldn’t be disabled by default in libvirt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528934
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