Disable ipv6 on mint/ubuntu
Thursday, February 5th, 2015How to disable ipv6 on ubunut distros
Edit the sysctl.conf file
sudo emacs /etc/sysctl.conf
append the following to the end of the file
# IPv6 disabled net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
Reload sysctl config
sudo sysctl -p
Now checks its gone by running ipconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e0:db:55:bc:1e:bb inet addr:192.168.0.133 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:429875 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:154053 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:300878637 (300.8 MB) TX bytes:17446275 (17.4 MB)