Re: I need to totally stop ANY indication of ipv6 connectivity, how.

[Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>]

	Hi.

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 05:38:22AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I have the following in /etc/sysctl.conf:
> 
> net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
> net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1

These are redundant:

> net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
> net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1
> net.ipv6.conf.eth1.disable_ipv6 = 1
> net.ipv6.conf.ppp0.disable_ipv6 = 1
> net.ipv6.conf.tun0.disable_ipv6 = 1

> but its not enough to stop this from ip a:
> : eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state 
> UP group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:1f:c6:62:fc:bb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff <--ipv6 crap.

No. That's MAC address of your NIC, hence "link/ether". IPv6 entries
start with "inet6".

Reco