On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > 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. I would agree with you. Have you tried setting ONBOOT=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ?? Barry