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Skriven 2012-02-20 14:09:30 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 67860 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: IPv6 ?
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 JP>    Looking through my OS, this is what I find :

 JP> Link-local IPv6 Address: fe80::1c7:36e4:2594:2a8d%13
 JP> IPv6 Default Gateway:
 JP> IPv6 DNS Server:

 JP>    Looks like W-7 is IPv6 capable 

it is... however, the link-local address is one of those 169.254.0.0/16 ones
that is given out when there is nothing available (DHCP server) to give a valid
network address...

 JP> but as the ISP is not yet doing this trick, there is not further 
 JP> information. 

if you have no IPv6 DHCP server or router on your network, then it is not just
the ISP that needs the capability... indeed, i do not use routers here on my
networks but i have numerous 8-port 100Meg switches that i will likely have to
replace... i do not need routers because i'm not routing between networks but
only expanding my network to handle the multiple machines i have here... and
i'd rather run one cable to one room to a switch that can handle multiple
connections than having to run eight cables into that room...

 JP> This would be the computor's IP address. Now, I am still looking 
 JP> for the router's capability. It will come in due time. 

if you do not see colon separated addresses somewhere in that router's setup
pages, then it is safe to say that it does not speak IPv6 and will need to be
replaced in the future...

did you know that one of the goals of IPv6 is for every device that is network
capable to have its own address? IPv4 started off the same way but started
running short so the RFC-1918 private network blocks of 10.0.0.0/8,
172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 were set aside so that companies could have
internal addresses that didn't conflict with outside routable addresses and
everything was done as normal internally but NAT (network address translation)
was used to talk to the outside world...

IPv6 will make it easier to track us and our online usage...

)\/(ark

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