1 Topic by auanta

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Topic: Disable IPv6 possible?

This feels like a silly question but I've just heard it's very hard to do in most distros. Is it possible to disable IPv6?

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Re: Disable IPv6 possible?

This should help:

1. Create a file like this: /etc/sysctl.d/40-ipv6.conf
2. Enter the following within:

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
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Re: Disable IPv6 possible?

Or edit the file
doas nano /etc/default/grub
and add ipv6.disable=1 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
I added the option for flasroom and in my case it looks like this

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet ipv6.disable=1 iomem=relaxed "

don't forget
doas grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg