Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 15:03, Rick Thomas<rbthomas55@pobox.com> wrote:
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> The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in -- i.e. not a
> module.
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> Does this make it impossible to turn off IPv6? Or am I missing something...
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
in /etc/sysctl.conf ought to do it.
likewise "ipv6.disable=1" as a kernel option or
"echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6" on the CLI
Not tested, however, and Ubuntu recently had a bug that stopped
this from working
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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