On 03/09/2015 12:55 AM, Ryan Wagoner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> > wrote: > >> >> On 03/06/2015 11:00 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> >>> On 03/06/2015 10:55 AM, Barry Brimer wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> There are other modules, most notably bonding that rely on the ipv6 >>>> module being loaded. What I do is place "options ipv6 disable=1" in >>>> "/etc/modprobe.d/ipv6.conf". That does require a reboot, which I know you >>>> are looking to avoid, so you may want to try other methods to remove your >>>> address in the running configuration. >>>> >>> 'All' I need is for the system not to have a global IPv6 address. Then it >>> will not try to connect to other global IPv6 systems which will reject the >>> connection, as the IPv6 rDNS cannot be set, given it is a dynamic IPv6 >>> assigned address from the ISP. >>> >> I tried: >> >> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network >> NETWORKING=yes >> HOSTNAME=z9m9z.htt-consult.com >> NETWORKING_IPV6=no >> IPV6INIT=no >> >> >> and 'service network restart' but still showing IPv6 addressing. > > > I would try adding the below line to /etc/sysconfig/network. > > IPV6_AUTOCONF=no Added this, did a 'service network restart' and still seeing the IPv6 addr.