[CentOS] Disabling IPv6 in Centos 4.x Experiences

Mon Sep 11 14:11:57 UTC 2006
Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com>

Aleksandar, can you please explain for me what does a criptic line
like "alias net-pf-10 off
 "  means "to disable ipv6" ?



On 9/11/06, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote:
>
> Erick Perez wrote:
>
> > Method 1, add the line:
> > alias net-pf-10 off
> > to the /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> This is the right way to do it.
>
> > Method 2 Add to /etc/sysconfig/network file:
> > NOZEROCONF=yes      # Bonus: Disable the ugly generation of 169.254
> > zeroconf networks.
> > NETWORKING_IPV6=no
> >
> > However adding the NETWORKING_IPV6=NO has no effect whatsoever because
> > even after a reboot the interfaces continue to load an ipv6 address. BTW
> > it does the same for zeroconf and doesn`t work either.
>
> It doesn't work on its own since as soon as first IPv6-capable daemon
> (for example sshd) attempts to bind to the ports, the ipv6 kernel module
> gets loaded and it will assign all interfaces default link local
> addresses to all interfaces.
>
> However, do note that apart from deleting ipv6.ko from the disk, there's
> no good way to get rid of IPv6 for sure.  Even with the both of the
> above, if somebody/something does "modprobe ipv6", the module gets
> loaded and it does its thing with link local addresses.  Once it is
> loaded it is next to impossible to unload it from the running system.
>
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