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How to disable autoconfiguration on IPv6 in Linux?

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Problem

How can I permanently disable autoconfiguration of IPv6 in Linux? When I try to manually delete an address from an interface with: It will reappear a few seconds later, I want it to be gone permanently, but without disabling IPv6 all together.

Error Output

ip -6 addr del 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334/64 dev eth1

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Fix for: How to disable autoconfiguration on IPv6 in Linux?

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Auto configuration can be disabled temporary for eth1 with: or for all interfaces with: Reenabling works by using 1 instead of 0 in the call. Disabling it permanently can be done with an entry to . On Debian Etch (probably on newer too), without set…

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