On 17.02.2013 г. 17:59 ч., Florian La Roche wrote: >> I could have written a script to remove IPV6 link local address but >> there should be a basic option for that. > > You can set: echo "options ipv6 disable=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/noipv6.conf > > But more and more apps then log problems or get confused if ipv6 is > completely disabled, so keeping the link local address should be > "the general case" for most installs. We use 'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1' which removes link local addresses for ipv4-only hosts and still keeps most apps happy. HTH, Deyan -- Deyan Stoykov, dstoykov at uni-ruse.bg Computing and Information Services Center University of Ruse