How to disable IPV6 on per Interface basis in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?

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Issue

  • Need to disable ipv6 just for particular interface on the system and not for all the available interfaces or system wide.
  • Adding IPV6INIT=no in the specific interface configuration files is not helpful and it does not disable ipv6 on that interface.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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