On 03/06/2015 10:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have just moved a host from a network that supports static IPv4 and
> IPv6. The IPv4 addr is set in ifcfg-eth0, and the IPv6 via RA (I set
> the MAC so I get an IPv6 addr that I like).
>
> I just moved the host to a network that supports static IPv4, but only
> dymanic IPv6, so at this time (until I get static IPv6), I need to
> disable the global IPv6 addressing. So in the ifcfg-eth0 file I set:
>
> IPV6INIT="no"
>
> But I am still getting a global IPv6 (and of course local scope).
>
> What else do I need to do to disable the listening for RA
> announcements and setting an IPv6 global address? I do not want to
> reboot the box. I can restart the network as needed.
>
> I seem to recall, once upon atime an option in /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> thanks
AFAIK/recall none of the ipv6 disabling in the /etc/sysconfig files has
ever quite worked the way it was advertised, I ended up writing a small
shell script to be executed on startup to handle the issue. something like:
echo "disable ipv6 on physical interfaces"
for i in /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth*
do echo 1 > $i/disable_ipv6
done
but you may have better luck.
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