Hi

I have disabled or tried to disable ipv6 for security reasons.

I have used the following methodology to disable it:

Added the following to /etc/sysconfig/network:

NETWORKING_IPV6=no

IPV6INIT=no

IPV6_AUTOCONF=no

I have also added IPV6INIT=no to the ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-lo scripts.

Despite all this if I do a ifconfig listing I can still see the ipv6 lines.

The only way I have found to disable ipv6 is to add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf

alias net-pf-10 off.

Two questions:

Does anyone know why the networking scripts is ignoring the IPV6 lines?

and

how would I “run” the command “alias net-pf-10 off” found in modprobe without needing to reboot.

Best Regards