diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 454ee59..ce436b9 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -117,3 +117,5 @@ hosts_entries: []
 
 # Custom host file snippets to be added
 hosts_file_snippets: []
+
+system_ipV6_disable: true
diff --git a/handlers/main.yml b/handlers/main.yml
index d03924c..6643765 100644
--- a/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/handlers/main.yml
@@ -12,3 +12,6 @@
 - name: Restart sshd
   service: name=sshd state=restarted
   become: yes
+
+- name: restart_sysctl
+  service: name=systemd-sysctl state=restarted
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index dd9cde1..2a06ea6 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
----
 #- include_tasks: hostname.yml
 - include_tasks: hosts.yml
+- include_tasks: tasks.sysctl.yml
 - include_tasks: dhcpcd.yml
 - include_tasks: hostname.yml
 - include_tasks: locales.yml
diff --git a/tasks/tasks.sysctl.yml b/tasks/tasks.sysctl.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..109d87b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/tasks.sysctl.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+- name: disable IPV6
+  template:
+    src: 40-ipv6.j2
+    dest: /etc/sysctl.d/40-ipv6.conf
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: 0644
+  notify: restart_sysctl
+  become: True
diff --git a/templates/40-ipv6.j2 b/templates/40-ipv6.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..813b10b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/40-ipv6.j2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = {% if system_ipV6_disable %} 1 {% else %} 0 {% endif %}