Jan 24, 2013 Posted by newlife007 on Jan 24, 2013 in Fedora, Linux | 0 comments

How To Disable ipv6 Fedora 17/18

IPV6 is coming, but it is not here yet, so say you want to disable it on your Fedora 18 system. Pretty simple to do. First let’s edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file.

$ sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf

Add and save the changes

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1

To eliminate the default ipv6 addresses still appear on the interfaces open a terminal and type

Type ifconfig to get the inet6 info and the adapter

$ ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 84  bytes 7100 (6.9 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 84  bytes 7100 (6.9 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

p2p1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.20  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fedc:5b71  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 08:00:27:dc:5b:71  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 234990  bytes 115274228 (109.9 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 210670  bytes 40730873 (38.8 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

        
$ sudo ip addr del ::1/128 dev lo
$ sudo ip addr del fe80::a00:27ff:fedc:5b71/64 dev p2p1

$ ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 84  bytes 7100 (6.9 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 84  bytes 7100 (6.9 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

p2p1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.20  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 08:00:27:dc:5b:71  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 235487  bytes 115320518 (109.9 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 210678  bytes 40731473 (38.8 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Comment out ::1 in /etc/hosts

$ sudo vi /etc/hosts

# ::1 localhost

Save the file and reboot the system

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