====== Disable IPv6 Protocol ====== ===== Current Linux Kernels ===== I recently had to disable IPv6 on one of my Linux VMs (running Xubuntu 15.04) and realized that the method to disable IPv6 in recent kernels had changed. The current way is to edit the file ''/etc/sysctl.conf'' and add the following lines to the end of that file: net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 Then either restart the computer or restart ''sysctl'': sudo sysctl -p ===== Older Linux Kernels ===== Edit ''/etc/modprobe.conf'' and add the following line to the file. alias net-pf-10 off Then restart the system.