Posted by chris on Mon 26 Jun 2006 at 08:37
Sometimes you might have a host which you wish to disable IPv6 upon, this can be useful if you're having DNS timeouts when software attempts to resolve hostnames, and for other reasons.
To disable IPv6 it should be as simple as adding the lines
alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off
to /etc/modprobe.d/00local (creating the file if it exists).
It is important that this comes in a file earlier in an alphanumeric sort than aliases since that contains aliases that turn this on.
Once you've made this change/addition you will need to restart the box afterwards - since the modules won't unload.
Note: Rumours reach me (thanks Steve) on the following about KDE. Since I don't run KDE I can't confirm this part (it looks like it controls apps in KDE - but if the protocol is not loaded at the kernel level then I can't see why it should be necessary - but just in case ...).
According to this link there is another step: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-77686.html
"Google finally revealed that you must add
KDE_NO_IPV6=true
to /etc/environment."
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