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May 24, 2019 at 9:32 am #21992
Xecure
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    Hi.
    Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do you know ipv6 is disabled?
    When you execute in terminal
    ifconfig | grep inet6
    or simply
    ifconfig
    is there no information on “inet6”? (this represents ivp6), if there is, you got IPV6 working.
    If there is no inet6 information, then check /etc/sysctl.conf. If you don’t like terminals, navigate using your file manager, right click and edit as root.

    You should be able to read most stuff there and understand what everything does. If you see nothing useful, add this at the end of the file:

    net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 0
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 0
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 0

    Now execute this in terminal so that changes take effect
    sudo sysctl -p

    Save and check ifconfig again on the terminal to see if this time IPV6 is working.

    If I am completely mistaken, and this has nothing to do with your problem, please forgive my blabbering.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Xecure. Reason: missing comand so changes take effect

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