Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>: > >> Hi >> >> On a CentOS 4.x box how does one disable IPV6? >> >> Is adding "alias net-pf-10 off" to the end of modprobe.conf and a >> reboot still the 'standard' way of doing this ? > > Yes, it is the only way of doing it. That alias will simply disable > automatic loading of ipv6 kernel module. You can still load it manually > (using modprobe). > > In 2.4 kernels ipv6 kernel module was not automatically loaded. If you > wanted ipv6 module to automatically be loaded in 2.4 kernels, you had to > use "alias net-pf-10 ipv6". In 2.6 kernels, default was changed to > autoload the ipv6 module if userland application needs IPv6. Nowdays, > almost all network daemons are IPv6 enabled. Triggering the load of > ipv6 kernel module as system services are started (unless you disabled > autoloading of ipv6). > this question has been asked so many times on the list that we should add it to the FAQ -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq