dugg around a bit, seems some people also add "alias ipv6 off" and/or "install ipv6 /bin/true" to the modprobe.conf, worth a shot i guess. Here's a link to where i was digging around: <a href="http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2004-07/0401.html">
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2004-07/0401.html</a> <br><br>Also, restarts are always required because of some mumbo jumbo about ipv6 being 'hooked into the stack' -- and it may be getting loaded because other programs are referencing the protocol(and the kernel loading it in response...i guess..::shrug::)
<br><br>worth a couple restarts possibly :)<br><br>-Merrick<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wojtak, Greg</b> <<a href="mailto:GregWojtak@quickenloans.com">GregWojtak@quickenloans.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Does anyone know how to completely disable IPv6 in Red Hate (short of<br>
recompiling)? Išve followed the KB articles and still the ipv6 modules<br>shows up in a lsmod and my interfaces have IPv6 addresses assigned to them.<br>sit0 still shows up. I have put INITIPV6=no in my ifcfg-<ifname> files, and
<br>put NETWORKING_IPV6=no in /etc/sysconfig/network. Still it persists.<br><br>TIA,<br><br>Greg<br>_______________________________________________<br>mdlug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mdlug@mdlug.org">mdlug@mdlug.org
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