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Disable IPv6 on Linux and OpenWRT

First written onJuly 27, 2023
Last updated onJuly 29, 2023

Disable IPv6 on Linux and OpenWRT

Let’s see how and why disabling IPv6 on GNU/Linux systems and on OpenWRT routers.

Warning: disabling IPv6 may have unintended consequences. Services are designed to run in dual stack mode. If you want to run a server exclusively in IPv4 mode you’ll need to change lots of configuration files, potentially one for each service!