Issue How do I disable or enable the IPv6 protocol in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? When I attempt to disable IPv6 in RHEL 5, IPv4 does not connect. I had to re-enable IPv6 via console commands to connect the server to the network. Why do I see errors when changing IPv6 kernel parameters? # sysctl -p error: "net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_redirects" is an unknown key error: "net.ipv6.conf.default.accept