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====== Disable IPV6 ======


You guessed it, we’re going to be working with the command line. I’ll show you how to disable IPv6 on Red Hat- and Debian-based distributions.

Here’s how to disable the protocol on a Red Hat-based system:

Open a terminal window.

Change to the root user.

Issue the command :
<code bash>
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
</code>

Issue the command : 
<code bash>
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
</code>

To re-enable IPv6, issue the following commands:

<code bash>
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
</code>

<code bash>
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=0
</code>

Here’s how to disable the protocol on a Debian-based machine.

1. Open a terminal window.

2. Issue the command sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

3. Add the following at the bottom of the file:

<code bash>
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1

net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1

net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

</code>
4. Save and close the file.

5. Reboot the machine.

To re-enable IPv6, remove the above lines from /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot the machine.

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