IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network

[Thomas Cameron]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> In /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 I have the line as in the subject, but I note 
> that bringing up eth0, at a fixed ipv4 address in the 192.168 block, there is 
> about a 5 second pause doing it, and ifconfig does report what looks like 
> valid ipv6 addresses for both eth0 and lo.
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:C6:62:FC:BB
>           inet addr:192.168.71.3  Bcast:192.168.71.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe62:fcbb/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:52899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:45100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:34184438 (32.6 MiB)  TX bytes:26737247 (25.4 MiB)
>           Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:6888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB)  TX bytes:16987249 (16.2 MiB)
> 
> 
> How does one go about disabling that?
> 

What happens if you add:

install ipv6 /bin/true

to /etc/modprobe.conf?  Forgive me if that doesn't work, I don't have a 
Fedora box to play with at the moment, only RHEL 5.

TC

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