Quiet down the ipv6 modprobe. Tell the user what is going on.

Thanks to upnort for the suggestions.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rc.inet1 b/rc.inet1
index 60116d0..dad251e 100644
--- a/rc.inet1
+++ b/rc.inet1
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ done
 # set to 0 before that happens, so try to pre-load ipv6 here.
 if [ ! -e /proc/sys/net/ipv6 ]; then
   debug_log "/sbin/modprobe ipv6"
-  /sbin/modprobe ipv6
+  /sbin/modprobe ipv6 2>/dev/null
   _DID_MODPROBE=1
 fi
 # If we did any module loading in the blocks above, sleep for a couple of
@@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ gateway_down() {
 
 # Function to start the network:
 start() {
+  echo "Starting the network interfaces..."
   lo_up
   virtif_create
   for i in "${IFNAME[@]}" ; do
@@ -610,6 +611,7 @@ start() {
 
 # Function to stop the network:
 stop() {
+  echo "Stopping the network interfaces..."
   gateway_down
   for (( i = $MAXNICS - 1; i >= 0; i-- )); do
     if_down ${IFNAME[$i]}