IPv6 Archives - Running Systems

Linux

Disable IPv6 on RHEL5 or Centos5

Byetzion 16/05/2011

Recently, bonding module requires IPv6 module. There are two possible solutions. The first is to define zeroconf to off, by adding the following line to /etc/sysconfig/network : NOZEROCONF=yes The other method, which actually disables IPv6 is to insert into /etc/modprobe.conf the following line: options ipv6 disable=1 That should do the trick. You will need to…

Solaris

Solaris SSH weird behaviour

Byetzion 03/07/2008

Sun likes IPv6. They like it so badly that they strive to use it in all cases. Solaris 9 and 10 SSH daemon is bounded to IPv6, which leads to a problem when trying to forward X. Editing the config file /etc/ssh/sshd_conf and assigning the SSH daemon to IPv4 address (bind to address 0.0.0.0) is…