IPV6INIT=no, but does anyway on local network

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 20:35 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
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I've read that works

other methods that should work...

adding
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
to /etc/sysconfig/network and reboot

or

adding
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

to /etc/modprobe.conf should also work

Craig