[ILUG] Eircom PPPOE, MTU and ADSL Debian confusion

[seanmac2003]

Scríobh Michael Christopher Woods:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to set up my Debian Sarge box with Eircom's ADSL stuff.
> However when using the Debian box net access / browsing is painfully
> slow. 
I haven't used Debian Sarge only Mandrake and I found that the internet 
was also painfully slow. The problem was that the machine was trying to 
use IPv6 rather than IPv4. When I disabled IPv6 everything was fine.

from 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO.html

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      4.1.2.1. Automatically loading of module

Its possible to automatically load the IPv6 module on demand. You only 
have to add following line in the configuration file of the kernel 
module loader (normally /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules):

alias net-pf-10 ipv6  # automatically load IPv6 module on demand
    

It's also possible to disable automatically loading of the IPv6 module 
using following line

alias net-pf-10 off   # disable automatically load of IPv6 module on demand
    

Additional note: in kernels series 2.6.x, the module loader mechanism 
was changed. The new configuration file has to be named 
/etc/modprobe.conf instead of /etc/modules.conf.


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Best of luck

Seán