Turning off ipv6

Paul Allen Newell pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Wed Feb 10 06:24:28 UTC 2010


inode0 wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Blacklisting ipv6 may not be enough to disable it completely; ipv6 can
>> still be loaded with insmod/modprobe.
>>
>> If you add
>> install ipv6 /bin/true
>> to the blacklist entry, it will not load at all.
>>     
>
> I think insmod will still load it even in that case although modprobe
> won't. It is too much a pain to get rid of that I don't really want to
> test that tonight.
>
> John
>   
Doesn't killing it in ifcfg-eth0 do the job of preventing ipv6 from 
being considered for any and all intranet and interet communication?

Paul

Paul


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