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+ | ====== How to disable IPv6 ====== | ||
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+ | Current Ubuntu releases have ipv6 enabled by default and in most cases it isn't needed at least yet. Here's a short description for disabling ipv6 but start by checking if it's even enabled currently. | ||
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+ | If that produced no output then ipv6 is already disabled. Otherwise first open (as root) the file /// | ||
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+ | and replace it with | ||
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+ | Then open /// | ||
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+ | # disable ipv6 | ||
+ | blacklist ipv6 | ||
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+ | Next you'll have to reboot the system since that seems to be the only way to get already loaded ipv6 modules out of memory. | ||
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+ | It should be noted that editing only /// | ||
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+ | will get added every time something in the system tries to access the net using ipv6. That can happen often in a busy system so there' |