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How to I completely disable (or remove) IPv6 from my slackware box? I'm using 10.1 atm. Thanks for any suggestions...
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  1. 02-22-2006 #1
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    Disable IPv6?

    How to I completely disable (or remove) IPv6 from my slackware box? I'm using 10.1 atm.

    Thanks for any suggestions
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  2. 02-22-2006 #2
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    Either take it out of your kernel configuration, or blacklist the following module in /etc/hotplug/blacklist

    just put this at the top of the blacklist file
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    I think adding the following to /etc/modprobe.conf still works, too:

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    alias net-pf-10 off
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