diff --git a/docs/user-guide.md b/docs/user-guide.md
index 6e68c304..bb62c12e 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Usage of kube-router:
       --enable-cni                                    Enable CNI plugin. Disable if you want to use kube-router features alongside another CNI plugin. (default true)
       --enable-ibgp                                   Enables peering with nodes with the same ASN, if disabled will only peer with external BGP peers (default true)
       --enable-ipv4                                   Enables IPv4 support (default true)
-      --enable-ipv6                                   Enables IPv6 support (default true)
+      --enable-ipv6                                   Enables IPv6 support
       --enable-overlay                                When enable-overlay is set to true, IP-in-IP tunneling is used for pod-to-pod networking across nodes in different subnets. When set to false no tunneling is used and routing infrastructure is expected to route traffic for pod-to-pod networking across nodes in different subnets (default true)
       --enable-pod-egress                             SNAT traffic from Pods to destinations outside the cluster. (default true)
       --enable-pprof                                  Enables pprof for debugging performance and memory leak issues.
diff --git a/pkg/options/options.go b/pkg/options/options.go
index a86fa515..539dd1cc 100644
--- a/pkg/options/options.go
+++ b/pkg/options/options.go
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ func (s *KubeRouterConfig) AddFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableiBGP, "enable-ibgp", true,
 		"Enables peering with nodes with the same ASN, if disabled will only peer with external BGP peers")
 	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableIPv4, "enable-ipv4", true, "Enables IPv4 support")
-	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableIPv6, "enable-ipv6", true, "Enables IPv6 support")
+	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableIPv6, "enable-ipv6", false, "Enables IPv6 support")
 	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableOverlay, "enable-overlay", true,
 		"When enable-overlay is set to true, IP-in-IP tunneling is used for pod-to-pod networking across "+
 			"nodes in different subnets. When set to false no tunneling is used and routing infrastructure is "+