CentOS – how to disable IPv6 without restart
In case you need to disable IPv6 and cannot afford to restart here are the commands to quickly do it for CentOS: echo “net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1” >> /etc/sysctl.conf echo “net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1” >> /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl -p