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Published at LXer: Need to disable IPv6 on your Linux system? Our guide provides clear steps for deactivating IPv6 temporarily or permanently on various Linux distributions. Read More......

I am a newbie to linux kernel and working on a custom dataplane kernel module. While porting linux kernel from 2.6.35.9 to 4.19.183 i did observe a difference in how kernel set out interface to...

Hello, My Slackware-15.0 computer is serving the wifi for IPv4. I updated with IPv6. On computer I have created a bridge (brwifi) and I attached there eth0 and wlan1. MAC of brwifi is MAC...

Published at LXer: While IPv6 is the future of the internet, running it on IPv4-only networks can be an issue. Learn how to disable IPv6 on Linux today. Read More......

i want to test if my IPv6 block is working. Code: --------- echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf --------- Code: ---------

Hello, I'm trying to run the following command but I see SIOGIFINDEX: No such device error. Code: --------- route -6 add xxxx:xxx::254 reject SIOGIFINDEX: No such device ---------

It is no secret that Cloudflare is encouraging companies to deprecate their use of IPv4 addresses and move to IPv6 addresses. We have a couple articles on the subject from this year:And many more in our catalog. To help with this, we spent time this last year investigating and implementing infrastructure to reduce o...

Published at LXer: Support for the Internet Protocol version 6 is available on Linux since 1996. The kernel implements this functionality, which is usually active and enabled by default on all the...

Published at LXer: Ubuntu 24.04, like its predecessors, supports IPv6 by default. However, there are times when you might need to disable IPv6, whether for compatibility reasons, testing purposes,...

Published at LXer: There are several general categories of DoS attacks . Some groups divide attacks into three classes: bandwidth attacks, protocol attacks, and logic attacks. Following are brief...

A story about trying out IPv6 in 2024 for a home ISP behind CGNAT (like Community Fibre in London)A rather old university book about networking.I first worked for a networking company in the last century and I got a certificate on TCP/IP. Back then it was all IPv4. They didn’t even call it that — it was just IP, Int...