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tips:how-to-disable-ipv6 [28.08.2011 22:51] (current)
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 +====== How to disable IPv6 ======
  
 +<note important>These instructions will not work in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) or anything later because ipv6 support isn't for some unknown reason a module anymore.</note>
 +
 +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.
 +
 +<code>ifconfig | grep inet6</code>
 +
 +If that produced no output then ipv6 is already disabled. Otherwise first open (as root) the file ///etc/modprobe.d/aliases// and locate the following line:
 +
 +<code>alias net-pf-10 ipv6</code>
 +
 +and replace it with
 +
 +<code>alias net-pf-10 off</code>
 +
 +Then open ///etc/modprobe.d/blacklist// and add the following at the end of the file:
 +
 +<code>
 +# disable ipv6
 +blacklist ipv6
 +</code>
 +
 +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.
 +
 +It should be noted that editing only ///etc/modprobe.d/blacklist// has the same end result of getting ipv6 disabled but a log entry like
 +
 +<code>modprobe: WARNING: Not loading blacklisted module ipv6</code>
 +
 +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's no point filling log files with it. 
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