On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 23:24, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 10:10, Eric Gaumer wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 00:31, Arne Caspari wrote: > > > Does anybody know how IPv6 can be disabled in Debian correctly ( > > > something like dpkg-reconfigure... )? I used some hack in my startup > > > scripts to make things work IIRC. > > > > You should be able to disable it via /etc/modutils/aliases > > That might not be enough. For me, sshd was listening on IPv6 ports, so loading > the ipv6 module. To stop this, I uncommented the line "ListenAddress 0.0.0.0" > which causes sshd to only listen on IPv4 ports. > I read somewhere that you should add the following line... install ipv6 /bin/true #alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6 ... rather than uncommenting the alias line. The manpage claims this would run /bin/true rather than loading the module. I haven't tested it though. -- Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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