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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-05 02:06:47 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-05 02:06:47 -0800 |
commit | 508827ff0ac3981d420edac64a70de7f4e304d38 (patch) | |
tree | b0cee8ddef9f0ceab68c388e4ae46b7295eb2cb5 /Documentation/networking | |
parent | 2c3c3d02f28801d7ad2da4952b2c7ca6621ef221 (diff) | |
parent | 72e2240f181871675d3a979766330c91d48a1673 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..268e5c103dd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ + +Options for the ipv6 module are supplied as parameters at load time. + +Module options may be given as command line arguments to the insmod +or modprobe command, but are usually specified in either the +/etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file, or in a +distro-specific configuration file. + +The available ipv6 module parameters are listed below. If a parameter +is not specified the default value is used. + +The parameters are as follows: + +disable + + Specifies whether to load the IPv6 module, but disable all + its functionality. This might be used when another module + has a dependency on the IPv6 module being loaded, but no + IPv6 addresses or operations are desired. + + The possible values and their effects are: + + 0 + IPv6 is enabled. + + This is the default value. + + 1 + IPv6 is disabled. + + No IPv6 addresses will be added to interfaces, and + it will not be possible to open an IPv6 socket. + + A reboot is required to enable IPv6. + |