12 Jun
2013
12 Jun
'13
5:54 a.m.
John Mann <john.mann@monash.edu> writes:
$ sysctl -a | grep ipv6.*disable net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 0 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 0 net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 0 net.ipv6.conf.eth1.disable_ipv6 = 0 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 0
$ sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth1.disable_ipv6=1 deleted all IPv6 addresses from eth1, including the link-local addresses.
Ah, thanks. I remember that was the (Debian-)recommended way to blanket disable IPv6 on a system, before it was added a /proc/cmdline option. That seems like a pretty safe approach.