Friday, October 18, 2024

For fun: disable IPv4 on Ubuntu and go IPv6-only

People often confuse "IPv6" with "IPv6-only". And then state wrong statements. Pity.

But, hey, Let's try what you happens when you go IPV6-only. So let's turn off IPv4.

On Ubuntu, you can do it like this:


sudo nm-connection-editor


In there, go to your active Wifi network, then go to the tab IPv4 Settings. At Method, select "Disabled".  Click Save.

To activate it, disable Wifi, and enable Wifi. And ... bingo ... IPv6-only!

Results:

Ubuntu works

Google, Microsoft and Facebook work

x.com results in a webpage with an error

A lot of Netherlands government sites work

KLM works, Transavia not

Smaller sites don't work