IPv6 is the newest version of the Internet Protocol. It is designed to supersede IPv4 as it offers many more addresses.
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Set up tunnel to HE.net and now only ipv6.google.com works, but other sites ping fine
I'm setting up IPv6 using my router which is running OpenWRT, version Backfire 10.03.1-rc4.
I made a tunnel using Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker and set it up on the router and I'm using RADVD to ...
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Why can't I ping local ipv6 windows machines from Ubuntu?
If I ping6 external ipv6 hostnames or addresses (e.g. ipv6.google.com) it works, but if I try to ping6 an ipv6 hostname or address it doesn't work. If I ping the same address from a windows machine on ...
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Windows 7 RTM: Loopback SMB over TCP/IPv6 connection preventing sleep mode
I'm running Windows 7 RTM with homegroup, network discovery, file and printer sharing, public folder, media streaming and Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service all turned off, but the computer ...
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Trouble connecting a Ubuntu system to IPv6 tunnel over NAT
I'm trying to set up an IPv6 tunnel, via Hurricane Electric's tunnel-broker service. I've configured my system using their example commands:
# $ipv4a = tunnel server's IPv4 IP
# $ipv4b = user's IPv4 ...
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How to block a program from using IPv4?
i have a program that can communicate over IPv4 (TCP and UDP) and over IPv6 (TCP and UDP). i want to block the program from being able to use IPv4.
i tried the Windows Firewall:
Except it blocks ...
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Prefer IPv6 over IPv4 in Windows Server 2003
I am running Windows server 2003 and my Firefox browser keeps using IPv4 instead of IPv6. Well at least http://ipv6-test.com/ says that my browser uses IPv4. How can I force it to prefer IPv6 over ...
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How to prefer ipv6 over ipv4 only for specific websites?
I only have ipv6 connectivity via a HE tunnel on my router, so normally I want to prefer ipv4 over ipv6. For some websites however, I would like to prefer ipv6.
Right now I have just set ...
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Can't ping Linux IPv6 bridge from host
I'm using a Linux box with two network interfaces as bridge (br0) and one system (X) behind the bridge with its own IPv6 address configured. Its other end is connected to a router.
The bridge ...
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How can I access an IPv6-only host from a Windows 7 computer behind an IPv4-NAT?
I have a computer with Windows 7. It's connected to Internet via an IPv4 NAT router. How can I access a host that is only accessible with IPv6?
Is there an easy way to configure the Windows 7 Teredo ...
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Can't ping another Teredo client behind the same NAT
I have 2 computers that are about as similiar as they can be
Both run Fedora Linux 15 x64
Both are behind the same IPv4 only NAT (my house)
Both run Miredo (Teredo Tunneling) and have unique ...
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How to setup pfSense 2.0 for TunnelBroker.net?
What is the procedure to create an IPv6 tunnel in pfSense 2.0?
pfSense 2.0 (RC3) supports creation of a GIF tunnels:
The help is pretty generic, and pretty unhelpful:
In pfSense 2.0, GIF ...
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DNS only for IPv6 requests (AAAA)
since my ISP is not offering IPv6 for the moment, i decided to use a tunnel from HE, however i have a problem with my DNS's (infact even with public ones like OpenDNS/GoogleDNS) and the problem is ...
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Safari proxy bypass for IPv6
I'm a first-time n00b on Mac (but have been doing computers since before PC's).
This Mac has 2 VLANs, vlan0 in IPv4, vlan1 in IPv6.
Safari can surf via IPv4 squid proxy OK.
Safari can surf via IPv6 ...
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disable IPV6 on specific interface with redhat on vmware
I tried to disable IPv6 on specific interface using IPV6INIT=no on the interface script.
its working great on all server accept ones that run on Vmware.
any idea?
im using redhat 5.2, on vmware ESX
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Windows 7: how to setup a Homegroup - IPv6 error?
Every time I try to setup a Homegroup I get an error message that I need to have IPv6 enabled. When I check the system it says that IPv6 is enabled.
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Linux/bash: How to get interface's IPv6 address?
What command can I use to get IPv6 address of an interface in a script?
Update: Output of sed from one of answers.
$ ip -6 addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436
inet6 ::1/128 scope ...
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IPv6 and its various incarnations
Is there a way already in place to make use of IPv6 as a routable protocol?
Is it possible to buy private IP addresses for IPv6 yet and if so who sells them?
Would there be any performance advantage ...
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Which Linux-based firewall supports IPv6?
Out of the box neither IPCop nor ipfire support IPv6, not even on the green interface (internal LAN).
How do I add IPv6 support to one of them? If that's not possible, is there a linux-based embedded ...
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Should I get a gigabit router with or without ipv6 support? [closed]
I'm in the process of getting a gigabit router so i can transfer files faster to and from my Lacie Network Space. I found a gigabit Router. Its performance is really good, however it doesnt support ...
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Can I use IPv6 in Windows 7 if my ISP support it but not my router?
I would like to use IPv6 on my desktop computer, it has Windows 7. My ISP has support for IPv6, since if I connects directly to the adsl-modem IPv6 works fine. But my home router doesn't support IPv6 ...
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Slow wlan0 compared to eth0?
Note:
DNS:
using OpenDNS
Wireless NIC:
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Kernel module:
iwl3945
uname -r
2.6.28-11-generic
Release:
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux ...
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Can't browse websites using IPv6
I have configured my Windows 7 to use IPv6 (auto IP & OpenDNS IPv6 DNS) / IPv4 disable. Now the problem is that only ipv6.google.com is working but no other website is opening.
How do I access ...
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How can I switch off IPv6 ND RA transmissions in Linux?
I am working on Ubuntu 11.04. I want to switch off the IPv6 ND RA transmissions. How can I do this?
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IPv6 Geolocation
I keep regular tabs on where my accounts are accessed from, and sometimes search the locations of IPv4 addresses. I'm now seeing accounts / machines I keep track of being accessed from IPv6 ...
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IPv6 Address Formatting and Lookup
I'm seeing an IPv6 address that ends in :f68. Is shorthand for :0f68 or :f680? I'm trying to do a lookup on it and for some reason doesn't like the 3 digit segment.
Thanks!
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Should I use a static IP address? If so what kind?
Last night I managed to get my local PC running as a server using port 80 and my IP address.
After restarting my machine it stopped working.
I was told I need to make a static IP address. My ...
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Unable to close SSHD on IPv6 TCP port
I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 and I've tried disabling IPv6 as I don't currently need it. I rand the following to disable IPv6 and then rebooted my server:
echo "#disable ipv6" | sudo tee -a ...
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How to configure Windows to use an IPv6 connection?
"Looking towards IPv6":
...we're pleased to let you
know that Google search is also
available over IPv6 at ipv6.google.com
(you'll need an IPv6 connection to
view it).
I tried visiting ...
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What is Hurricane Electric's IPv6-enabled DNS server?
Hurricane Electric has IPv6-enabled DNS servers for use with their tunnelbroker. What are the addresses for these servers?
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Why has ping started to resolve hostnames to IPv6 addresses?
Why would my computer (Vista Business) begin to start pinging using IPv6? I have not to my knowledge made any change to enable this.
When I ping a local computer with it's hostname, ping has started ...
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How to disable ipv6 on a specific interface in linux?
Could someone tell me how to disable ipv6 auto-config on a specific network interface in CentOS?
The current situation is:
A PC has two network adapters eth0 and eth1 that are connecting to the same ...
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How can I completely disable IPv6 on Debian (squeeze)?
I'm running Debian Squeeze (with a stock 2.6.32 kernel). I'd like to completely disable any kind of IPv6 traffic. Can I do this? There doesn't seem to be any relevant module loaded. Perhaps some ...
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Debian - IPv6 disable 'Stateless Address Autoconfiguration'
I've installed Debian 6.0.6 running on kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 and after the installation I assigned a static IPv6 address to the eth0 interface.
This is how my /etc/network/interfaces file looks like:
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What is the performance of a connection using a tunnel broker versus native?
I am wanting to mess with IPv6 for teaching purposes. The problem is my ISP is not currently IPv6 ready. So I was going to use a tunnel broker from Hurricane Electric to solve the problem. The one ...
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IPv6 tunnel from behind an ISP-level NAT
Previously, at a different location, I set up a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel, which worked fine, allowed me to access IPv6 only sites and test the native IPv6 connections on my remote servers.
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linux route command not working
I use route command to add new route in my routing table. But it my new root is not added. Also it doesn't show any error for my command. Here is the console
#route add ::/0 via fe::2
route: ...
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How to port-forward IPv6 in m0n0wall?
How do i port-forward IPv6 packets in m0n0wall?
For example i want to forward traffic arriving on port 443 of my router to another IPv6 address:
Interface: WAN
Protocol: TCP
External port range: ...
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What are the equivalent IPV6 versions of IPV4 special-use adresses?
I'm trying to make a private network with 5 computers bellow an external ADSL router with NAT, but internally I want to use IPV6. To do this I need to use private special-use IPV6 addresses, such as ...
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Is an RDNSS or DHCPv6 server allowed to distribute a link-local IP address as DNS server?
And if so, how is this supposed to work? Is the client supposed to attach the interface identifier himself, based on the interface the assignment came through?
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How to configure monowall to use TunnelBroker?
How do i configure monowall for IPv6 connectivity with Hurricane Electric's TunnelBroker.net IPv6 tunneling service?
Note: i'll be answering the question myself; since this site is a wiki
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How to reach a Global Scope IPv6 host?
I have setup DNS64+NAT64 on a machine with 2 interfaces:
eth0: public IPv4 address (connected to outside world)
eth1: global scope IPv6 address: 2001::/64
I can successfully use ping6 google.com on ...
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Accessing non-port80 web server using IPv6
In a normal IPv4 network, I can go into any browser such as Firefox and browse a server on a IPv4 address not hosted on port 80:
http://192.168.42.6:8080/
This accesses the server on port 8080 on ...
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Native IPv6 on openwrt
I just flushed my linksys wrt54gl router with openwrt and was hoping to enable IPv6 connectivity, but I can't figure out how. Every tutorial I reed tells how to do it using e.g. tunnelbroker but I ...
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Quality of service in IPV6 [closed]
IPv6 was developed to solve some of the problems of IPv4, such as QoS.
We know in IPV4 based on TOS values, a packet would be placed in a prioritized outgoing queue,or take a route with appropriate ...
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6to4 vs ISATAP vs Teredo Adapters
I understand that all three adapters mentioned in the title are related to transitioning IPv4 to IPv6.
ISATAP: Transmits IPv6 packets between dual-stack nodes on top of an IPv4 network.
Teredo: IPv6 ...
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Win 7 IPv6 default Routes
I am using a DHCPv6 server (Dnsmasq) to assign IPv6 address in my LAN. My configuration works, but I am unable to ping the DHCPv6 server. The route information on host machine does not contain a route ...
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Teredo won't enable on domain-joined Windows 7 system
I'm trying to enable Teredo on a Win7 SP1 x64 system, in order to provide Remote Assistance for a system outside the local network. The local system is joined to a 2008-level domain which I have full ...
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What protocols will/are ISPs use for IPv6 deployment?
Currently ISPs deal out addresses via DHCP for IPv4 dynamic (single) addresses.
What protocol will/are ISPs going to use for IPv6 when they can hand a customer an entire /64 (or /48 if they are nice) ...
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How to force java to use ipv4 instead ipv6?
java in my browser no longer working, when I open a page that has a java element, java can not connect to the server, after I investigate it, obviously java was trying to use ipv6 java, while my ...
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Why is IPv6 ping failing to access google.com?
I have found that ping google.com from my Windows 7 box has stopped working.
Below is the output - note that the IPv4 ping works, and Yahoo works. Is my local router at fault here?
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