From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] /etc/hosts: add local ipv6 definitions
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 09:45:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210301084535.GA29021@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1168127532.9248.1614577420738@seven.thorsis.com>
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 06:43:40AM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de> hat am 26.02.2021 14:24 geschrieben:
> > Hmmm, I wonder if this works even if GLOBAL_IPV6 is turned off. Or
I just tried this:
root@DistroKit:~ ping ip6-localhost
PING ip6-localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=9.578 ms
That surprised me a bit but I think that's fine.
> > maybe we should get rid of GLOBAL_IPV6 too? :-)
>
> I know this sounds tempting, but please don't do that. We still support
> systems with only 32 MiB RAM and not much more flash and have to save
> every byte we can. We have IPv6 turned off, because there's absolutely no
> demand for it from our customers and disabling it in kernel and userland
> gets us a little more space.
No worries. That option will stay a wile longer. So, I'm guessing you're
not using systemd there either, right?
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-01 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-26 9:26 Uwe Kleine-König
2021-02-26 13:24 ` Roland Hieber
2021-03-01 5:43 ` Alexander Dahl
2021-03-01 8:45 ` Michael Olbrich [this message]
2021-03-01 18:04 ` Alexander Dahl
2021-03-01 20:41 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2021-03-02 8:20 ` Michael Olbrich
2021-03-05 7:26 ` [ptxdist] [APPLIED] " Michael Olbrich
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