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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-03-05 05:06:47 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-03-05 05:06:47 -0500
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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
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2Options for the ipv6 module are supplied as parameters at load time.
3
4Module options may be given as command line arguments to the insmod
5or modprobe command, but are usually specified in either the
6/etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf configuration file, or in a
7distro-specific configuration file.
8
9The available ipv6 module parameters are listed below. If a parameter
10is not specified the default value is used.
11
12The parameters are as follows:
13
14disable
15
16 Specifies whether to load the IPv6 module, but disable all
17 its functionality. This might be used when another module
18 has a dependency on the IPv6 module being loaded, but no
19 IPv6 addresses or operations are desired.
20
21 The possible values and their effects are:
22
23 0
24 IPv6 is enabled.
25
26 This is the default value.
27
28 1
29 IPv6 is disabled.
30
31 No IPv6 addresses will be added to interfaces, and
32 it will not be possible to open an IPv6 socket.
33
34 A reboot is required to enable IPv6.
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