Cannot get rid of ipv6 address
Jason Brown
jason at jasonbrown.us
Sun Oct 17 22:20:28 UTC 2010
Try this:
echo "install ipv6 /bin/true" > /etc/modprobe.d/ipv6
Then add the following lines to /etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
IPV6INIT=no
On Oct 17, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> My EeePC 4G 701 is running Fedora-10/KDE .
> (I haven't succeeded in upgrading to Fedora-13 yet.)
> It seems to run reasonably well,
> but there is one curious feature -
> I can only get an IPv6 address for eth0, the ethernet connection.
> I get an IPv4 address for wlan0, the WiFi connection.
>
> 1. lsmod shows that the ipv6 module is running.
> I thought I had stopped this by appending "alias ipv6 off"
> to /etc/modprobe.conf , but evidently I was mistaken.
> Is there a better way to turn a module off?
>
> 2. Is there a way of using an IPv6 address in /etc/dhcpd.conf ?
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
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> Timothy Murphy
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