Re: need to disable IPv6

[Dave B <spam%y2012.dberg.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:45:58PM -0400, Anne Bennett wrote:
> 
> Since my machine is behind an IPv4 NAT gateway, I can't speak IPv6 to
> the outside world.  How, how, how do I turn it off, at least for the
> external interface?  At the moment, ifconfig reports:
> 
>   fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>           address: 00:11:d8:00:00:f3:a9:66
>   fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>           address: 00:18:f3:ad:85:bd
>           media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
>           status: active
>           inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>           inet6 fe80::218:f3ff:fead:85bd%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>   lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33192
>           inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>           inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>           inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3

  Does deleting your inet6 address(es), e.g.,

    ifconfig fxp0 inet6 delete 'fe80::218:f3ff:fead:85bd'

and restarting relevant rc.d services make things work (or at least
fail quickly and move on) and hence, tide you over until an actual,
correct answer to this is posted?