How Do I Disable Ipv6 On My Osx 10.12 For Ethernet

Oct 13, 2011 - i figure OS X 10.7.2 now will automatically obtain ipv6 ip address if your router/ISP. OS X El Capitan (10.11), OS X Yosemite (10.10), Older OS X Versions, OS X Mavericks. Go into the Network preferences pane and turn IPv6 off. Networksetup -listallnetworkservices networksetup -setv6off Ethernet.

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I'd like to avoid my Mac OS X machine from using ipv6 at all. I'm looking for a programmatic way to disable ipv6 on every network interface and, possibly, to avoid ipv6 support by the kernel at all.

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As an explanation, I need the equivalent of adding 'alias ipv6 off' to modprobe.conf in linux. The 'it's impossible' answer is welcome, being supported by some kind of official source, of course. EDIT: I want to remove ipv6 from logs, from ipfw, from everywhere. Even for the satisfaction of knowing if and how it is possible. It is is right to do it is another issue:). Looks informative. It looks like it does work if run as root.

I dont feel like disabling it permanently, so I cant confirm the sysctl command.