Steps to disabled IPv6 on RHEL 5:
1. In Fedora, CentOS or RHEL5 Linux modules are loaded using /etc/modprobe.conf file.
Add these line to disable autloading of IPv6 module in /etc/modprobe.conf
alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off2. Next edit /etc/sysconfig/network
# nano /etc/sysconfig/network
Change to the following.
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
3. Also to disable the IPv6 service.
# service ip6tables stop
4. permanently disabling.
# chkconfig ip6tables off

