turning off ipv6

[Andy Green]

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