hello-
i have kernel 2.6.8 - and am having difficulty understanding how to
properly keep the ipv6 module from loading.
initially, i included it in the hotplug blacklist, along with a few
others, but this didn't work. the other modules were not loaded, but
ipv6 still was. i believe, if i understand correctly, this is because
if something asks for it, it will load, even if it's blacklisted w/
hotplug. my problem is that i know there are plenty of process asking
for it simply because they can, not because they need to.
after many hours of reading about modutils, module-init-tools, rmmod,
modprobe.d, modprob.conf, and many others, the only thing i could come
up with was to change the line in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases to:
alias net-pf-10 off
and did an update-modules and a depmod. this did indeed work, but i
believe it is not the correct way to do this. especially since the
aliases file i had to edit says right at the top 'this file does not
need to be modified'
what is the proper approach to achieving this?