disabling IPv6 in transmission-daemon

[mr-4]

I am using transmission 2.12 and wish to disable IPv6 permanently as I have (administratively) prohibited IPv6 throughout my entire system.
When I start transmission-daemon I am getting constant kernel module loading errors (the module in question is net-pf-10 which I believe is responsible for IPv6) - is there a setting I could use to disable IPv6 in transmission permanently?

I tried setting "bind-address-ipv6" to "" instead of the default "::" in settings.json, but it did not work. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[lkraav]

bump, also looking for this

[mr-4]

Well, apparently, the "solution" from what I could tell is to set this in settings.json:

"bind-address-ipv6": "fe80::"

That's how I did it, but I also have IPv6 disabled completely on the entire system and also prevented the daemon accessing any of the kernel modules - for good measure.

[lkraav]

yep, i commented about the same solution in the bug you filed. thanks for the reply.

[robross0606]

I tried this option but it doesn't seem to work. When I restart Transmission, it wipes the "fe80::" and puts "::" in the field all by itself.

[cdetroye]

Just a reminder that Transmission rewrites the config file when you shut it down.

So in order to put this in the config, stop transmission, update config, start transmission.

I verified it works on my end.

[ikwyl6]

I added the "fe80::" to this option and it core dumps my transmission (transmission-daemon 3.00 (bb6b5a062e):

Aug 10 02:07:04 user systemd-coredump[21386]: Process 21305 (transmission-da) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 21333:
#0 0x00000000b69c7758 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x31758)