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Re: how do I disable IPv6?



Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> writes:

> INET, no, too much of the system requires that one to be
> enabled, if it even builds without it, I'd be surprised.  Amd
> certainly INET6 without INET (a v6 only host) has no chance
> of working.

Long ago, I tried disabling INET, because I wanted a machine that really
could not do IPv4 at all.  It indeed did not work.

But, this is a bug.  We should be able to build with v6 and not v4, and
have it work fine.  I realize that's an exercise for the reader to try
it and fix a number of bugs.

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