25 May
2007
25 May
'07
10:19 a.m.
Niki Kovacs wrote:
NETWORKING_IPV6= -> I wonder if I can switch that to 'no', since I simple don't use IPV6. Will some apps mysteriously refuse to work when I do this? (You never know...)
That can be safely switched off, yes.
HOSTNAME=... -> this looks like a redundancy with information provided in /etc/hosts. So what is it for? Can it be left out?
NO. There are probably several parts of the system relying on the hostname of your machine to be in that file.
GATEWAY=... -> another redundancy, since it's also to be found in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface>. Leave it out if it's in the individual interface scripts?
This is the *default* gateway, which should be referenced here.
Cheers,
Ralph