[mdlug] Disable IPv6?

[Jonathan Billings]

Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> Does anyone know how to completely disable IPv6 in Red Hate (short of
> recompiling)?  I¹ve followed the KB articles and still the ipv6 modules
> shows up in a lsmod and my interfaces have IPv6 addresses assigned to them.
> sit0 still shows up.  I have put INITIPV6=no in my ifcfg-<ifname> files, and
> put NETWORKING_IPV6=no in /etc/sysconfig/network.  Still it persists.

I have this in my /etc/modprobe.conf:
# Disable IPv6
alias net-pf-10 off

This'll tell the kernel to not even bother loading the IPv6 module.


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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>