Frequently Asked Question
There are many reasons to pull Ipv6 support from Proxmox (and Debian)
So here's how to do it.
There are eseentially two options
GRUB
The first involves adding
ipv6.disable=1
to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT lines in
/etc/default/grub
and then running
update-grub
before rebooting - Effective and brutal.
SYSCTL
The safer way, is to use the sysctl commands to turn it off in the network stack, and that is done by creating a file /etc/sysctl.d/60-disableipv6.conf
Add the following lines to that file:
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
Then activate this configuration using
sysctl --system
Remember to sudo if you're not a superuser.
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