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I'm running Debian Squeeze (with a stock 2.6.32 kernel). I'd like to completely disable any kind of IPv6 traffic. Can I do this? There doesn't seem to be any relevant module loaded. Perhaps some setting in /sys
or /proc
?
I read this, but my /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
doesn't have a
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
line, it's commented-out already.
I realize this is old but I just inherited a WMWare Debian 6.0 install and the IPv6 is throwing issues all over the network. I've read on various VMWare sites that the solution is to disable IPv6 on VMs, which has already been done on the windows VMs. And as you may have guessed, this is an old VMWare install 5.0. – htm11h – 2018-02-02T18:15:30.613
That's not IPv6 traffic.
SRC=192.168.2.100 DST=192.168.2.255
– Michael Hampton – 2013-03-09T03:49:04.437@MichaelHampton: You're right. But the question is still generally relevant. – einpoklum – 2013-03-10T05:10:55.827
In that case, I will have to remind future readers that disabling IPv6 is generally a really bad idea, and should not be done except as a last resort, as it will cause you problems later when you have to use IPv6. – Michael Hampton – 2013-03-10T05:16:50.113
@MichaelHampton It's a simple process to re-enable it, assumng you remember. I disabled it as a quick fix (I've since changed the preference properly) on openSUSE a while ago, because it preferred IPv6 which would take a while to time out - giving me a not-so-nice several second delay on every request... But, yea, there's almost alwys a better way than flat out disabling it. – Bob – 2013-03-10T05:21:57.080
FYI: A working solution is at http://askubuntu.com/a/337736/164798
– Tino – 2014-05-29T07:51:31.763