Wed, 21 Mar 2007
The Wonderful World of Kernel Module Removing
All I wanted to do was stop the IPv6 kernel module from starting on boot.
It shouldn't be hard, it shouldn't be difficult and despite the early hour
of the day, it shouldn't require me to google.
But it seems that it does, as a start point the Planete Beranger Disable IPv6 post shows the many different ways to solve the problem. Unfortunately it seems that the Debian Etch install I'm testing on doesn't like:
# /etc/modprobe.d/00local
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
But it has no problems with a blacklist ipv6 - apart from a
number of cases where that might not work and you'll then have to rely
on a install ipv6 /bin/true GAH! This hasn't only bitten
me, Planete Beranger rants in more detail in the Messy modprobe.conf
post.
Amusingly I discovered this while writing a small check to show which of our servers have Ipv6 enabled (we don't use it) but rather than a one off run it'll now have to be a periodic check. It's going to be one of THOSE days.
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