what is the F19 way to disable ipv6?

Michal Schmidt mschmidt at redhat.com
Mon Jul 15 14:44:32 UTC 2013


On 07/13/2013 01:44 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> please take a look at this
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982740#c12
>
> what do we do in the future to disable ipv6 entirely
> and why is "ipv6.disable=1" as kernel param at least
> with 3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64 on F19?

Back in 2011 the preferred kernel parameter to do that was 
"ipv6.disable_ipv6=1":
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2011-June/003106.html
I assume it's still true today.

"ipv6.disable=1" should still work though. I still see it handled 
net/ipv6/af_inet6.c.

In the linked Bugzilla comment you mentioned "ipv6disable=1" (without a 
dot). Did this ever work? I think it's a typo.

Michal



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