FC12-- Temporarily turning off IPv6 in Firefox and Thunderbird

[Jim]

On 01/12/2010 07:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 01:00 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>    
>> Robert Moskowitz on 01/12/2010 02:36 PM wrote:
>>      
>>> And before I left home I was on my wireless network that DOES have IPv6
>>> and a RA server.
>>>        
>> It's possible you've hit a bug with NetworkManager. It may be carrying
>> over the default gateway for IPv6 if you go from a IPv6 network to
>> IPv4-only network. I do this all the time though and I have not seen
>> issues, so it may be certain steps that you are doing that no one else
>> is.
>>      
> We think it is a "misconfigure" notebook on the network here.  I
> succeeded in deleting the gw route, and 2 minutes later it was back.
> And the network guys confirmed it is not coming from them.  Then I
> remembered I did not have this problem yesterday.  So the current
> thought is someone showed up today and their system is advertising
> something (RA?) that I am picking up.
>
> GRRR.
>
>
>    
Robert I had the same problem on my Asus eeePC 1000 and I did this; 
check attached file and follow instructions .
My wireless card is setup as ra0 instead of wlan0 . So I had to setup in 
/etc/
dhclient-ra0.conf
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