Found a post that explained what was needed to disable ipv6 on our installation of RHEL5.

The only thing that we really need is to add a line in /etc/modprobe.conf

alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off

Simple enough!

Ref:

• http://www.vincentverhagen.nl/2007/06/22/disable-ipv6-on-red-hat/

Posted on May 5