IPv6: should be enabled or disable?

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 9 16:20:51 UTC 2011


On 9 December 2011 14:59, LinuxIsOne <reallife at hmamail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
>
>> There's generally no compelling reason to either enable it or disable
>> it. You only need it enabled if you're using an IPv6 network, and the
>> only reason to disable it would be because of bugs it triggers.
>
> Oh I see. I used to think as if the disabling of IPv6 is good for
> better speed in Internet. But as you say, there is no need to disable
> it. But how  can I check if it enable or disable or what?

If you click on the network indicator in the top panel and select Edit
Connections (or something similar, not sure exactly what it was in
10.04 which I think you are using) then select the connection, click
Edit and go the IPv6 settings tab.

Colin




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