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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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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Setting Remote Desktop to allows IPv6 connections
Setup:
Basically I have 3 machines (2 virtual and 1 physical) that I would like to be able to RDP in to from outside my NAT (a router).
The VMs are Windows 7 and Windows XP, both fully patched ...
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How can I make localhost resolve to 127.0.0.1 instead of ::1?
When I ping localhost the address resolves to the ipv6 loopback of ::1
My MySQL and Apache installations expects the ipv4 address of 127.0.0.1
How can I configure my WindowsXP to resolve localhost ...
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Ping myself, works with ipv6 not ipv4 in Windows 7
I've tried to solve the following problem with no luck and I need some proffesional help.
The following is possible:
Ping all computers (that I tried) in the domain without problem.
Ping myself ...
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enabled IPv6 but [::1] is not working
Windows XP with IE 7
http://localhost works.
http://127.0.0.1 works.
http://[machinename] works.
http://[::1] does not work.
A separate W2K3 machine works with all four addresses.
I did the same ...
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issues switching to IPv6
Currently have a local LAN with one WindowsServer2003 machine and several XP machines. Everything works normal, users can share folders, etc.
Decided to install the IPv6 protocol on all machines, ...
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Anyone use uncommon DSL providers? [closed]
I'm considering switching my DSL provider from verizon to another DSL provider that seems to offer multiple IP addresses to its customers (for not a huge amount of money).
I'm also interested in ...
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netcat is blocked, telnet gets connection
I'm trying to install an svn server on my linux machine (ubuntu 9.04). I copied a line to start svnserve to the inetd.conf file and restarted inetd. But I'm not able to connect with an svn client to ...
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Fixed dhcp ipv6 lease with windows seven?
Here is my setup:
my isp provides me with a /64 ipv6 adress (a real one, not through an ipv4 tunnel or whatever) in addition to my ipv4
my router provides the ip with dhcp over my home network. I ...
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IPv6 autoconfigure on Windows XP
I read this from Running IPv6:
C:\>netsh
netsh>interface ipv6
netsh interface ipv6>show addres
Querying active state...
Interface 6: Local Area Connection 3
Addr Type DAD State Valid Life ...
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Forward IPsec tunnel from IPv4 endpoint to IPv6 endpoint
I have a new ISP and only have a Dual Stack - lite connection now. That means I can't access my router via ipv4 anymore, since the external ipv4 address is private. I have native IPv6 connectifity.
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Can ping but cannot search
I have a problem with IPv6 connectivity. I have searched a lot of web sites, but I cannot find a solution.
Here is the ping output:
Ping ipv6.l.google.com [2404:6800:4005:c00::67] (with 32 bytes of ...
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Cisco - client can ping but router not
I configured a HE.net IPv6 Tunnel on my router which has two WAN ports. The strange thing is that all clients are able to ping IPv6 hosts on Internet, but my router cannot ping anyone.
Here's the ...
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How to troubleshoot lost 6to4 packets?
On my VDS, both 6to4 and Teredo seem to work poorly (packet loss is about 40%).
just-ping.com shows packet loss 10%-80% both for 6to4 and for Teredo address, but 0% for IPv4 address.
When running ...
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Why is “localhost” slower than “127.0.0.1” in Google Chrome - Windows 8? [duplicate]
There is a very similar previous question and answer, but for windows 7 and/or earlier versions of Google Chrome, here:
Is there a way to disable IPv6 in Google's Chrome?
That solution no ...
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DNS Resolution Issue - Error 105
I cannot connect to the internet.
I am having issues resolving DNS (Error 105) in all browsers on my Dell XPS 15 laptop running Windows 8 64x. There is also a dual boot with linux Mint running that ...
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Why do I need a managed switch and which one should I buy?
I bought a 2nd router and I want both routers to have direct WAN access to the modem.
One of the 2 routers directs VOIP traffic to a telephone line port. This VOIP service is provided by the cable ...
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ipv6 find all hosts in a prefix
Using the ping6 command you can find the link-local address of ipv6 hosts out of an interface using:
ping6 -I eth0 ff02::1
This will ping everything in the subnet and so you can see what is out ...
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Windows doesn't respond to IPv6 multicast ping
I'm trying to do a IPv6 multi-cast ping from Linux and I can't get a response from my windows host.
ping6 -I eth1 ff02::1 Will find all my Linux and iOS devices but not my Windows hosts. I can find ...
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How to check if protocol 41 (6to4) is filtered by ISP without changing the network configuration?
Obvious way (just setting up 6to4 tunnel and pinging) fails because ip command seems to be read-only on my VPS: can't change any networking-related settings.
So I try using raw sockets:
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How to redirect local connection to my things in IPv6 on linux?
With IPv4 I can make some program connect to my service instead of where it wants using REDIRECT and DNAT targets in OUTPUT chain in iptables (sometimes combined with -m owner)
In IPv6 hovewer I ...
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Why can I not (re-)install IPv6 on Windows XP Home laptop?
Years ago for some unknown/mistaken reason I uninstalled IPv6 on one of my XP laptops.
I have not been able to reinstall IPv6 - neither via the commandline nor the GUI.
The error message is:
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How do I get Tomato to use IPv6
My ISP provides native IPv6 and it works great when I connect directly with my macbook to the ethernet port. I get a ipv6 assigned and all IPv6-only sites works great.
But when connecting through my ...
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Is there a way to enable/disable IPv6 without restarting Chrome?
chrome://net-internals/dns#dns has a button which allows us to enable IPv6 for Host resolver:
This is how it looks like after clicking Enable IPv6:
How do I revert to the previous state without ...
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How can I get windows to release an IPv6 address
I have a windows system with an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address and I'm trying to figure out how to release my IPv6 address.
I've tried ipconfig /release6 and I get this error
An error occurred ...
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IPv6 traffic shaping
With the second IPv6 Launch Day behind us, i'm stuck waiting for traffic shaping support on IPv6 before i can deploy it to our network.
i currently use m0n0wall as a router with its IPv6 support, ...
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How to install IPv6 on Windows 2003
How do you install IPv6 on Windows 2003 ... and get it working ?
I'm trying to add IPv6 to one of my development machines which is Windows 2003. I've followed the knowledge base article on MSDN, and ...
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Failed to fetch security.debian.org on Windows host
I am using 64-bit Debian 6.0 (squeeze) from a Windows 7 64-bit VirtualBox host, but I'm unable to successfully ping security.debian.org from both the guest or the Windows host. E.g., from the ...
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Are there any home ISPs that offer external IPs for all devices on the network? (No NAT)
NAT is a a real pain, and the large address space in IPv6 doesn't need it. Are there any ISPs that offer actual home routing, giving each computer a global IP address, rather than a local one?
This ...
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Can't access my shared folder by ipv4, only ipv6 and name
How to make possible to access to shared folder on win7 machine by ipv4? as my linux machine needs it.
The problem is in fact that i can't access by ipv4 to this folder even from this win7 computer, ...
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Can't ping Linux IPv6 address from Windows XP
I gave an IPv6 address to my SUSE Linux machine on a VirtualBox VM with ifconfig eth0 inet6 add ...
IÂ can't ping that address from Windows XP (vice versa) The address of the Linux machine is efbb::26 ...
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IPv6 addresses in dnsmasq
As I need to use dnsmasq to route all requests on *.local to my local machine (and use there an IPv6 addresses), i set up the dnsmasq like this:
/etc/dnsmasq.d/my-local.conf
address=/local/::1
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IPv6 SSM multicast: is it built in or do you have to use another protocol like PIM-SM with it?
I'm trying to understand how integrated SSM multicast is to IPv6. Is it built in and sent solely by ICMPv6 messages or do you have to run something extra like PIM-SM? The reason I as is I've seen ...
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Do modems affect IPv6ness?
I have a 11year old modem. However from my knowledge it isn't giving me problems.
I ran an ipv6 test I got "10/10" for for your IPv4 stability and readiness and 0/10 for IPv6. I then tried running it ...
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Configure IP v6 on Linux machine
I use this command to assign a site-scope IP address:
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 inet6 add fee3::216:cbff:fe94:1a86/64
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Check it with ifconfig:
$ ifconfig
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ...
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No AAAA responses from Google DNS
I just set up a HE tunnel on my Windows 7 PC, and while i can browse to http://[2a01:3f0:0:a::186]/ i cannot browse to http://ipv6only.bredbandskollen.se which is their FQDN. Also, the speedtest flash ...
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IP Helper service uses 50-60% CPU every 1 minute for 3-4 seconds on Windows 7
I have checked everything - all the processes in the process explorer. IP Helper service is causing CPU usage of over 50 % every 1 minute for 3-4 seconds then comes back to normal. In the task ...
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What is it that makes the transition to IPv6 so difficult to deploy on a wide scale?
As most people know by now, the IPv4 address space is about to run out, and this (and other problems) can be solved by migrating to IP6.
Now I keep reading in the tech press that the migration is a ...
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How to find the next IPv6 address in a sequence
I have a /96 block of IPV6 addresses and i'm wondering how i could some how find the next address (Since ipv6 addresses can contain numbers and letters). I know the first address could be in numbers ...
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Does IPv4 and IPv6 talk to each other?
If a country switches entirely to IPv6, does this changes anything for the other countries?
(question inspired by this news article)
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How can I figure out what IPv6 to use if I want to set a static IP for my computer?
I recently installed Windows Server 2012 on my desktop. I changed my connection settings to hardcode my internal IP address as 192.168.0.99 (IPv4). Windows Server 2012 warned me that I should also set ...
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Why does IPv6 use 128 bit addressing? [closed]
When I first heard about IPv6, I just assumed that it doubled the number of addressing bits in IPv4, from 32 bits to 64 bits. This would have been enough for at least 2.6 billion addresses for each ...
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Disabling IPv6 without tweaking the registry
I read an article that disabling IPv6 needs a registry hack. Is there a different way to disable IPv6 without modifying the registry in Windows 8?
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Why do I have so many IPv6 (inet6) addresses?
If I run ifconfig on my Linux (Ubuntu) server, I get the following output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:27:88:0f:80:74
inet addr:10.1.0.11 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
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Ipv6 routers for home and smb
Keep reading stories about how ipv4 is just about out of addresses and how we need to start moving to ipv6
What kind of hardware is out there and what features desirable for SMB and or home use?
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IPv4 to IPv6 wireless LAN router
Does anyone know where I can find a home wireless router that does IPv4 to IPv6 address translation?
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TCPDUMP: are these args consistent or meaningless together?
I'm using tcpdump on routing software, and trying to check whether the presence of ip/ip6 protocol with an ip6/ip host (i.e., the other IP family), or else specifying a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 IPs as ...
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wireshark: how to capture traffic between guest and host OS?
I'm trying to set up a lab to demonstrate ipv6 attack and detection mechanism on my Macbook. This is my set up with virtualbox:
Host OS: OS X 10.8.2 IPv6 automatically, wireless connection Geust
OS: ...
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How do I access IPV6 from IPV4?
I have been searching for a long time ipv4 to ipv6 proxy program but i nothing found... Currently i have IPv4 address however i would like to try IPv6 address. Is there a simple solution for IPV6 ...
