On Sunday, January 23, 2022 5:43:49 PM EST Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 04:08:34PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally > > kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything? > > You don't need to; having IPv6 active doesn't cause any problem even > if you don't have a default route that supports IPv6. If it does > cause a problem then there is a misconfiguration to be solved. You are > wasting your time and introducing more places where you can make a > configuration error resulting in yet another of your megathreads¹. > > However, if for your own eccentric reasons you insist: > > # echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1' > > /etc/sysctl.d/disableipv6.conf > And thats backwards from setting it in the /proc tree, there a zero in a long path to disable_ipv6 disables it after an /e/i/networking restart. And I just noticed this is an arm64 build, I need an armhf, where can I get that from?
> will disable it from the next boot. > > You can use: > > # sysctl --system > > to re-apply all sysctl configs immediately, so disabling IPv6 > without needing to reboot. > > > This ought to be in a faq somewhere. Except everybody has their own > > method. :( > > The first google hit for "debian disable IPv6" is: > > > https://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/debian/how-to-disable-ipv6-on-de > bian-9-ubuntu-16-04.html > > which includes the above method. It's not a great page but it does > contain that info. > > So even this highly unusual requirement has a very easy to find > solution. > > Regards, > Andy > > ¹ Your decision to use Debian testing seems likely to generate some > more of those threads. But I expect you won't be persuaded to > stick with stable. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
