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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060911/025e6d65/attachment-0005.html>