Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-10 Thread Mauro Santos
On 10-09-2015 11:06, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:46:25 -0600 > Leonid Isaev wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 08:04:37PM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote: >>> afaik >>> disabling ipv6 with a kernel boot flag is not recommended and one >>> can expect breakage... >> >> Why? Where i

Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-10 Thread Joakim Hernberg
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:46:25 -0600 Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 08:04:37PM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > > afaik > > disabling ipv6 with a kernel boot flag is not recommended and one > > can expect breakage... > > Why? Where is it written? I'm sorry, I can't find the links any

Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-09 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 08:04:37PM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > afaik > disabling ipv6 with a kernel boot flag is not recommended and one can > expect breakage... Why? Where is it written? Sure, I don't expect ipv6-specific software to work on my system but the ipv4 stack is fully functional.

Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-09 Thread Joakim Hernberg
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:35:27 -0600 Leonid Isaev wrote: > All networks on which I have Arch machines are IPv4-only. So I don't > need IPv6... I'm not a network expert and don't need ipv4 either, but afaik disabling ipv6 with a kernel boot flag is not recommended and one can expect breakage... The

Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-09 Thread Leonid Isaev
[replying to both emails] On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 12:11:29PM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:14:31 -0600 > Leonid Isaev wrote: > > > I tried playing with cmdline options, without any success. ping from > > [core]/iputils 20140519.fad11dc-1 does work. Is this a bug or a > >

Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-09 Thread Jens Adam
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:14:31 -0600 Leonid Isaev : > Is this a bug or a feature, and does anyone know how to make ping work > again? Have you tried 'ping -4'? Yes, it's undocumented. --byte pgpcQ0FuMTzk_.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP

Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-09 Thread Joakim Hernberg
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:14:31 -0600 Leonid Isaev wrote: > I tried playing with cmdline options, without any success. ping from > [core]/iputils 20140519.fad11dc-1 does work. Is this a bug or a > feature, and does anyone know how to make ping work again? You could create an ip6table firewall that j

[arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

2015-09-08 Thread Leonid Isaev
Hi, I noticed that ping in [testing]/iputils does not work on systems with disabled IPv6 stack. For example (as root): -- # ping archlinux.org ping: socket: Operation not permitted (raw socket required by specified options). # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=../vmlinuz-linux ... ipv