Tuesday 17 January 2012

Disabling IPv6 in Windows 2008

Unticking IPv6 in the NIC settings only disables IPV6 for that NIC. This does not apply to sudo NIC like Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP), 6to4 and Teredo. To disable this to the system open and CMD prompt with elevated privileges and execute this command:


reg add hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\tcpip6\parameters /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 4294967295


Further reading: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852

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