Re: how to disable 'sending IPv6 router solicitation'

[Saifi Khan <saifi.khan%fastpath.in@localhost>]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Roy Marples wrote:

> On 28/10/2012 14:55, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > How to disable 'sending IPv6 router solicitation' ?
> >
> > I'm using NetBSD current on AMD64 box with Atheros NIC that connects
> > to a IPv4 router for DHCP assigned address.
> >
> > x53u# dhcpcd -d -g -L -n -w re0
> >
> > I don't want IPv6 and Zeroconf, rather just plain ipv4 DHCP address.
>
> Add noipv6rs to dhcpcd.conf(5)
> The next major dhcpcd release will sport the more familiar -4 and -6 options.
>
> > If i 'reboot' the system, it is able to acquire a ipv4 address, but
> > if i boot the system with no networking (consider it no carrier
> > available), and later attempt the following
> >  # /etc/rc.d/network restart
> >  # dhcpcd -d -g -L -n -w re0
> > then dhcpcd is not able to acquire the ipv4 address at all.
> >
> > Any suggestions ?
>
> Don't use -g
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy

Roy thanks for highlighting the option to use.

in fact for me, both the options 'noipv4all' and 'noip6rs' came in handy.

As a long time Gentoo user ;-) i was wondering how is that with just one line 
entry in /etc/conf.d/net

ifconfig_eth0="dhcp"

the ipv6 router solicitation does not get triggered.

With the focus back to the options in dhcpcd.conf, the behaviour is less 
magicaland helps keep things straight.


thanks
Saifi.