Well, I was thinking that changing this option in sysctl.conf or in 
rc.local may come too late in some cases. See also the DDB_ONPANIC 
option that already exists and was put there for the same reason.

M

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 11:31, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:24:42AM +0200, Mihai CHELARU wrote:
> > How about making an option in kernel to control this behaviour ?
>
> There is one.
>
> sysctl net.inet6.ip6.v6only
>
> You can write it (as root) with
>
> sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.v6only=1	(or =0)
>
> or put
>
> net.inet6.ip6.v6only=1
>
> into /etc/sysctl.conf to make this happen at each reboot.
>
> [Note that I replied to you only, as this was already mentioned on
> the mailing list. If you want to discuss this option further, on the
> list please.]
>
> Regards,
> 	-is