{"id":429,"date":"2014-12-19T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=429"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:53:19","slug":"disable-ipv6-auto-configuration-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Disable IPv6 Auto-Configuration Address"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IPv6 is autoconfiguring, that&#8217;s great for worksations and mobile devices, but for servers you want some control. Yes you can hard code a static IPv6 address, but it will also show an autoconfiguration address too. You can disable the RA&#8217;s from the router, but in some cases you might not want to do this. So to disable IPv6 autoconfiguration on a Windows 2008 R2+ server you can run these commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly determine the network interface to disable IPv6 auto-configuration on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code> netsh interface ipv6 show interface<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next you take this number ID and run this command to disable IPv6 autoconfiguration on the interface:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>netsh interface ipv6 set interface XX routerdiscovery=disabled<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Where XX is the ID from the previous command of the NIC you want to set this on.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPv6 is autoconfiguring, that&#8217;s great for worksations and mobile devices, but for servers you want some control. Yes you can hard code a static IPv6 address, but it will also show an autoconfiguration address too. You can disable the RA&#8217;s from the router, but in some cases you might not want to do this. So &#8230; <a title=\"Disable IPv6 Auto-Configuration Address\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=429\" aria-label=\"Read more about Disable IPv6 Auto-Configuration Address\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}