IP Networking

Hi, Anybody who worked with IPv6 on Solaris 8.
I want to get rid of IPv6 (Uninstall).

Any comments ...ideas...will be highly appreciated.

By default IPv6 came with the package in Solairs 8. And it functionalities are wide. Ex:

- Expanded Routing and Addressing: IPv6 increases the IP address size from 32 bits to 128 bits to support increased levels of addressing hierarchy, provide a far greater number of addressable nodes, and allow auto-configuration of addresses. Of the 128 bits, 48 bits are reserved for public topology, 16 bits to design a site topology, and 64 bits to identify a machine in a subnet. This provides support for 65K subnets with a virtually infinite number of hosts per subnet.

- IP Security: IPv6 is a better platform for implementing security through IPSec because IPv6 restores end-to-end IP connectivity. This security functionality was lost due to the introduction of NAT (Network Address Translator) boxes.

Cant figure out why you want to remove/uninstall it. I give two opinions above so that maybe you will change your mind not to uninstall.

Thanks for your info.

Thanks for your information.
Problem is that we are using IPv4 in all unix servers in our environment. Will there be any problem if I use IPv6 alongwith IPv4 on Sun box. We already configured the box on IPv4 and we just want to bring down IPv6.
See below
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 142.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask fffffc00 broadcast 142.xxx.xxx.xxx
ether 8:0:20:ea:3f:0
lo0: flags=2000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 8252 index 1
inet6 ::1/128
hme0: flags=2000841<UP,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2
ether 8:0:20:ea:3f:0
inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:feea:3f00/10

There should be no problem using IPv6 in your environment. Since your network is assumed to be pure IPv4, the IPv6 components will simply not be used.