FC12-- Temporarily turning off IPv6 in Firefox and Thunderbird

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/12/2010 05:23 PM, Jim wrote:
> 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

I got how to turn off IPv6 in Thunderbird.  You get to config editor 
from the Edit>Preferences> Advanced> General dialog screen.  There you 
do the same as in Firefox to disable the IPv6 support.

I will turn it back on when I get home...