Turning off ipv6

[Timothy Murphy]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>> To disable ipv6 on F12 on the next reboot just add the line
>> 
>> net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
>> 
>> to your /etc/sysctl.conf file.
>> 
>> To disable it right away issue the command
>> 
>> sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

> Thank you. That looks like the Right Way (tm) to do it.

As a matter of interest,
why do you prefer this to modifying ifcfg-eth?
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ,
which was suggested earlier?

Do both work, I wonder?

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