Disable and Enable IPv6 on Mac OS X

Last modified: 
Monday, December 7th, 2015
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OSX

How to disable IPv6 support on later versions of OS X.

Turn IPv6 supprt off

networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

Turn automatic IPv6 handling back on

networksetup -setv6automatic Wi-Fi


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