Re: Turn off IPv6, HOW?

Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[disabling ipv6:]

> I always add the line
> IPV6INIT=no
> to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> [or eth<X>].
>
> Is that sufficient?

If your system is encumbered by the hideous mess of dereferenceable
environment variables that is a Red Hat-style /etc/sysconfig/ tree, yes,
that is indeed one different way to accomplish the same thing. Unlike
the other answer cited, it doesn't apply to Linux generally.

> Incidentally, isn't it crazy that one has to write
> gibberish like "alias net-pf-10 off" ?
> What on earth does this mean?

It means don't load the net-pf-10 kernel module, which handles ipv6.

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