Hi. On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 05:38:22AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have the following in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
These are redundant: > net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.eth1.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.ppp0.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.tun0.disable_ipv6 = 1 > but its not enough to stop this from ip a: > : eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state > UP group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 00:1f:c6:62:fc:bb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff <--ipv6 crap. No. That's MAC address of your NIC, hence "link/ether". IPv6 entries start with "inet6". Reco