There're many-many methods described all over the net, some work in Etch, some in Lenny, some in Squeeze. The
official documentation tells you to use
sysctl
to set
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6
to
1
in case of Squeeze.
Actually this is the only method that works for me (at least in Squeeze). I used to get IPv6 related errors during
apt-get update
commands and using
sysctl
to let the kernel know not to use IPv6 stopped these from occurring.
The
older method (that worked in Lenny) does not really work for me anymore (it prevented the
ipv6
module from being loaded, but APT errors still kept coming), but I'll document it just for reference: create a new file at
/etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
and put the following in it:
install ipv6 /bin/true
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
There's
another (third) method which might (or might not) work for you: set the kernel commandline parameter
disable_ipv6
to
1
. This is meant to do the same as the
sysctl
method and might work if your kernel recognizes this commandline parameter. If you're using the GRUB bootloader, you can specify the parameter in
/etc/default/grub
in the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
variable.
As already said: for me the
sysctl
method works just fine in Squeeze.
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