Disable ipv6 on Ubuntu 16.10

There is a right way and a wrong way to do this, if you want the removal to survive reboots and not be overwritten by updates, use the code below: # create config file echo “net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1” | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-my-disable-ipv6.conf # ask the system to reload it …

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