What is the Internet protocol?
Internet Protocol (IP) is the protocol or set of rules by which data is sent from one computer to another on the internet. The Internet Protocol gives every computer, every machine, or computer on the internet a unique address called an IP address. The IP address is used to uniquely identify each device on a network. The IPv4 is the previous version of the Internet protocol.
The IPv4 is of size 32 bits, whereas the IPv6 is of size 128 bits. As the number of devices in the world is increasing rapidly, there is a chance that all the possible IPv4 addresses might get exhausted. so the ipv6 was introduced.
How to Disable IPv6 in linux?
In this article, we will discuss how to disable IPv6 in Linux. We can achieve this using sysctl.