On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 16:22 +0300, George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 16:09 +0300, George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote: > > ively, I guess you could add to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf a > > line that says: > > > > blacklist ipv6 > > > > then reboot. That should prevent the module from being loaded in the > > first place. If you compiled your own kernel and built in support for > > IPv6 > > Actually, it seems IPv6 support has been builtin in Debian kernels since > June last year. Shows how much I use it. :-) > > Apparently, the proper way to disable IPv6 is to append ipv6.disable=1 > to your kernel line in grub. If you're using grub legacy, go > to /boot/grub/menu.lst and add "ipv6.disable=1" to the line saying: > > # defoptions= > > (Leave it commented, and if it already has something, just add a space > at the end, then the ipv6.disable=1 bit). > > If you're using grub2, go to /etc/default/grub and add it to the > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=/dev/somethin" line, add a space then > ipv6.disable=1.
Sigh. Not my best day today. After you do these, run update-grub to actually update the config file, then reboot. -- George-Cristian Bîrzan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281101011.30379.1807.ca...@gcbirzan
