turning off IPv6 support in BSD

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:59:23 +1100, andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +0000, Danny Browne wrote:
> 
> > How do i turn off IPv6 support in FreeBSD 4.10?
> 
> Remove "options INET6" from your kernel config file
> (/sys/i386/conf/XXX), rebuild your kernel and reboot your machine.
> 
> There may be a way to turn it off at runtime using sysctl, but I don't
> know what it is, and in hindsight it probably wouldn't make much sense
> to do that at runtime, although I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. :)
> 
> Regards
> Andrew

You can also comment out the 'ipv6_enable="YES"' line in /etc/rc.conf.