IPv6 Nightmares. Why cant I not use!

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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triad wrote:

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| Sorry to burst your bubble but I have rebooted my computer more times
| then when I did when I ran Windows but IPv6 Still shows up.!!   This
| doesnt answer my question but gets me infuriated at thinking that
| responses to ubuntu Mailing lists can be as Niave as yours.
|

modutils is used only by 2.4 kernels. mostlikely you have a 2.6 kernel
and you using module-init-tools that uses /etc/modprobe.d/ as
configuration directory.

You need to edit _also_ /etc/modprobe.d/aliases too and run update-modules.

Check that /etc/modules.conf is update properly.

This is the standard procedure. but that's not enough.

Apparently there is another bug somewhere between the kernel and
module-init-tools that even if you ban ipv6 will still allow some
applications to trigger the load of the module.
Personally i don't remember if this is the normal behavior or not.

ntpdate is the first one in the boot process that shows this behavior,
but there are others.

so a simple workaround is to rename or remove the ipv6 module from
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko.
FYI: This will spawn an extra error message during the boot process.

For reference https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443

Fabio

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