IPv6

Mezzle · 12-03-2009, 18:59

Is anyone else out there running IPv6 yet?

I'm running it through sixxs.net and my VM connection, and it seems to be going swimmingly well (although there are sometimes a few issues with PCs other than my main one picking up an address, but that's a case of restarting the router advertisement daemon)

Peter_ · 13-03-2009, 07:21

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Originally Posted by Mezzle

Is anyone else out there running IPv6 yet?

I'm running it through sixxs.net and my VM connection, and it seems to be going swimmingly well (although there are sometimes a few issues with PCs other than my main one picking up an address, but that's a case of restarting the router advertisement daemon)

You may have an IPv6 address but your Virgin service is not running using it as the will be an IPv4 address below it that we are using, to test just go to LAN settings properties and remove the tick in front of the IPv6 and leave the tick in !Pv4 and you will still be on the internet, try putting the tick in IPv6 and out of IPv4 and you will lose your connection.

your IP will begin with either 62,77,80,81,82,92,94 or 213 the may be one missing.

Information on IPv4 and IPv6 CLICK HERE

Mezzle · 13-03-2009, 19:33

I *do* know the difference between ipv6 nd ipv4. I apologise if my post wasn't clear.

I've specifically setup an IPv6 tunnel through a broker, which I am making accessible to the rest of my LAN.

Peter_ · 13-03-2009, 19:57

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Originally Posted by Mezzle

I *do* know the difference between ipv6 nd ipv4. I apologise if my post wasn't clear.

I've specifically setup an IPv6 tunnel through a broker, which I am making accessible to the rest of my LAN.

Good to see someone going forwards with their connection, so just remoting through your Virgin connection

Mezzle · 13-03-2009, 20:12

Yep, my Main Desktop has the tunnel using aiccu, then that broadcasts across my LAN the route, and routes all traffic through it.

I think that having this, along with reverse DNS is pretty useful, espescially when I want to see what I've left connected. It also makes it quite nice to be able to SSH into my home machines properly from my (native) IPv6 enabled servers

RamJet · 16-05-2009, 18:59

I've just noticed that my connection IP addresses seems to be in hex all of a sudden - has there been a change ie is VM now using IPv6 ?

Peter_ · 16-05-2009, 20:20

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Originally Posted by RamJet

I've just noticed that my connection IP addresses seems to be in hex all of a sudden - has there been a change ie is VM now using IPv6 ?

No because as you are on Vista in the DOS page it will show an IPv6 address and lower down it will show the IPv4 address that you are connected with.

Also if you go to the network and sharing centre and disable IPv6 with no effect to your connection.