Friday, September 7, 2012

How to disable IPv6 in Fedora 17 ?

Problem:

How to disable IPv6 in Fedora 17 or in future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?

Environment:

Fedora 17
Future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on Fedora 17 and higher

Resolution

Set the following sysctl parameter

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 

With Fedora 17 kernel, ipv6 support is included in the kernel and is no more a module


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