Barry Brimer wrote: > Quoting Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>: > > >> I want to seriously work with IPv6 and not have stray IPv4 functions >> messing with me. >> >> So in /etc/sysconfig/network, I commented out NETWORKING=yes. I have >> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes. >> >> In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts I altered ifcfg-eth0, setting >> BOOTPROTO=none. That was enough for eth0 to only have IPv6 working on >> it (have IPV6INIT=yes and IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes). >> >> But lo had IPv4. So I commented out all of the IPV4 lines in ifcfg-lo. >> Still have IPv4 on lo. How do I disable that? >> > > Try adding "alias net-pf-2 off" to your /etc/modprobe.conf I did that and rebooted. Then did a ifconfig and lo is still showing an inet address of 127.0.0.1 and I can ping 127.0.0.1 So that tends to imply that ipv4 is still running.