(usagi-users 02538) Re: turning off Ipv4 support

[iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Iain Young)]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:40:26PM +0200, Peter Bieringer wrote:
 
> Off-topic: there were some rumors about IPv4 modularisation some time
> ago...anyone on the list who knows newer things?

Last thing I heard, IIRC davem wanted nothing to do wth that, as it could
mean some third party installing their own (inferior) IP(v4) stack, but
that was some time ago
 
> Temporary help:
> 
> Configure "127.0.0.1" on the device, this will make IPv4 unusable on the
> connected networks.

Yep, or just configure localhost with 127.0.0.1, and dont allocate
IP addresses to the real devices, but then, in theory at least, that
still allows IP packets to travese the host if it has multiple
interfaces...an echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward and
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding  will also help
that if I recall correctly (If not, I'm sure someone will correct me)


Best Regards

Iain