Found a link with google where the author suggested that to disable ipv6 I should only need alias net-pf-10 off in modprobe.conf. It did not work. The output of lsmod | grep ipv after a reboot still lists the following: nf_conntrack_ipv4 15049 3 iptable_nat nf_conntrack 63049 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state nfnetlink 9945 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack ipv6 277957 34 -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org