Bug 243602
Summary: | Disabling IPv6 during install doesn't seem to disable IPv6 | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Anthony Messina <amessina> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 7 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-06-11 15:27:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Anthony Messina
2007-06-10 15:10:17 UTC
This was a topic of confusion in the Fedora Development tree leading up to Fedora 7. The checkbox in the installer is not meant to be a master switch, but rather a control for the network bringup commands that are about to run. If you select Enable IPv6 during installation, anaconda will try to obtain an IPv6 address. Some people don't want the installer to even try this, so the option to disable IPv6 configuration during installation is there. Right now in Fedora, both IPv4 and IPv6 things are enabled by default. Users should not have to care whether the IPv4 or IPv6 stacks are enabled or disabled, likewise with the ip6tables service. Both stacks are considered part of the all-encompassing network configuration. In past releases, users could disable the IPv6 stack, but we're not doing that anymore. Having the IPv6 stack active doesn't affect anything, but if you really need to disable it in your environment, you can prevent loading the ipv6.ko kernel module at boot time. All IPv6-dependent things won't load if that module isn't loaded. thank you for the clarification. where would i begin trying to figure out why ip6tables takes so long to load (since i have not other ipv6-enabled workstations or routers on this network)? I would suggest searching bugzilla for other open bugs against ip6tables. May be a known issue. Failing that, contact the package maintainer (usually the first email address listed in the changelog of the package...you can get the changelog this way: rpm -q --changelog ip6tables). |