turning off IPv6

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 7/6/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > On 7/5/06, Noah Dain <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> And by that line of reasoning, every daemon available should be
> >> running and listening on all interfaces by default.  But we don't do
> >> that, do we?
> >
> > Nice strawman.
>
> Ah - there we are. Calling arguments from other people "strawman".

It is a strawman.  Comparing network protocol support in the kernel to
a userspace server daemon (eg; httpd, ftpd, etc) is a non-starter.
There is no comparison.  His position is that ipv6 is a security
problem.  My position is that it is not.  Those two positions can be
directly discussed without the use of invalid comparisons.

> > One doesn't have to recompile their kernel to enable a
> > service daemon.
>
> One doesn't have to recompile the kernel to enable IPv6 either, so,
> if there's a strawman, you just created one.

Compiling kernel code is necessary to enable ipv6 if it's not already
compiled for you by the distribution maintainer.  Anyway, please see
my other message in which I ask you to show me where in my
/etc/modules the ipv6 kernel module is being loaded.  I'll post it in
this message again for your review:

cbell at circe:/etc$ cat modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
psmouse
cbell at circe:/etc$

I can't seem to find it in there.  Thanks for your help.

-- 
Chris

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