Quoting Diego Iastrubni, from the post of Sun, 05 Jun:

> 
> For some stupid reason, this "smart" debian box keeps loading ipv6
> I edited /etc/modules.conf into:
> alias net-pf-10 off             # IPv6

next time a deb's post-install script runs update-modules, that change
is erased. what you should have edited is /etc/modutils/aliases and run
update-modules yourself.

> IMHO that should be enough, but it does not always work and IPv6 is getting 
> loaded (sometimes). Any more ideas?

yes, it annoyed me too, and I didn't bother with fancy modules.conf
tricks, I went straight to the /lib/modules tree and renamed ipv6.ko of
my kernel. I donno what decided to load it and I don't care anymore.

What worried me were simply the implications of bind9 and apache2 among
others that started listening to tcp6 sockets - my firewall opens only a
select list of ports, and I never opened IPv6 packet types. I donno what
the implications are, since I never had the need to get into this new
protocol in the real world, and therefore I might just as well not load
it to the kernel at all.

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Ira Abramov
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