[clug] Disable IPV6 in a linked kernel

[jm]

Is there anything you can tweak via sysctl?

take a look at the output from

$/sbin/sysctl -a | less

Jeff.

Brett Worth wrote:
> I had an interesting problem today that had no obvious solution.
>
> A system I'm using has a custom linux kernel which I can not easily rebuild or relink.
> This kernel has almost all its device drivers linked in including ipv6 and net-pf-10.  I
> would like to disable ipv6 but I've only ever done that by messing with the modprobe.conf
> file to prevent these modules from loading.
>
> Is there any way to turn off ipv6 when there is no module?  A kernel command line
> parameter?  Googling for an answer just results in a million suggestions to not load the
> module.
>
> Brett
>