Looking to upgrade my Fast Ethernet home network switch to a Gigabit Ethernet switch. Figured I should make sure that the new device supports IPV6, but in looking at the specs of a few switches, I could not find any references to IPV6. I found such info conspicuous when looking at the specs for routers and cable modems, and was surprised it wasn't the same for switches. Do switches just handle IPV6 transparently?
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Switches are layer 2 devices, and neither know nor care about what's going on with IP (V4 or V6) and TCP at layers 3 and 4. They just move Ethernet packets around. | |||||
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