how to force all packets to be ipv4 not v6

[Mario Lobo]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:20:17 -0400
Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a host that for ISP reasons must have a ipv6 addr as well as
> the ipv4 but the ISP does not offer external ipv6 routing but all the
> commanes (ssh, ftp, etc.) default to ipv6 and need special options to
> use 4 is there anyway to force them to always use 4?
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A kick and dirty way would be to comment the line:

options 	INET6	# IPv6 communications protocols

from your kernel config and recompile.


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