turning off ipv6
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Tue Feb 20 07:28:38 UTC 2007
Jaigh Jaddo wrote:
> I set NETWORKING_IPV6=no , removed ::1 from /etc/hosts and turned off
> ip6tables. Is there an
ything else that needs to be turned off to disable
> ipv6?
> If I do and ifconfig, I still see an inet6 address. Is this normal even
> though ipv6 is disabled?
The core guts of ipv6 is the kernel module "ipv6". You can nuke this at
a low level by adding
install ipv6 /bin/true
in
/etc/modprobe.conf
and rebooting.
-Andy
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