Barry Brimer wrote: > > > 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 ?? No, but I do want iPv6 loopback, so I need something working for ifcfg-lo Will try some more tomorrow....