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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IPV6 auto configuration not working in Ubuntu Natty
In Windows 7, my computer can automatically get a IPV6 global address and use IPV6 network, but in Ubuntu Natty, I can't find out how to let stateless configuration work.
My network is a university ...
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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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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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Setup IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel on DLink DIR-615
Recently I wanted to setup IPv6 for my home network. I signed up for tunnelbroker.net service and was provided with IPs.
Then I configured the IP address in my DIR-615.
But It's not working..
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Is there any benefit to using IPv6 on my home network?
I know that IPv6 is the future because there is only 4 billion IPv4 address, but on a home network, you are not going to have 4 billion users. So are there any other benefits that would make IPv6 on a ...
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Routing IPv6 traffic through Debian pptpd into Hurricane Electric's IPv6 tunnel
I have set up a tunnel using Hurricane Electric's services on a Debian machine. It seems to work alright; I can ping6 ipv6.google.com and open it in links.
I've also set up a PPTP daemon on the ...
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Block IPv6 with windows firewall when connected to VPN
I found an article on how to block IPv6 with windows firewall but will this work when connected to a VPN? Dosn't the VPN tunnel through the firewall?
F.eks if I add these rules to windows firewall:
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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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How to Get the size of IPv6 header? [closed]
I know there is IHL field in IPV4 which is Internet Header Length.Since an IPv4 header may contain a variable number of options, this field specifies the size of the header. But there is no IHL or ...
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ignore ipv6 router advertisements for static addresses with bonded interfaces
I need to attribute static IPv6 addresses (not use autoconfigured addresses, and ignore router advertisements).
This can be done as follows for a standard interface like eth0
iface eth0 inet6 static
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netsvc (dnscache,wecsvc,tapisvc,nlasvc,cryptsvc) sending stream to address 808:808::3821:ae83:100:20
i have win 8 installed on my computer, using pppoe connection with ipv6 disabled. but when i check on "resmon" i saw there is netsvc sending stream to 808:808::3821:ae83:100:20 address. i try to ...
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Why is UDP traceroute not working for IPv6?
I have just gotten dual stack support on my CMTS and enabled IPv6 on my router. I have debian installed on my PC, and I am noticing the default traceroute (uses UDP on linux) is only making it to my ...
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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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IPHLPSVC High CPU in Windows 8 x64
I was experiencing consistent high CPU usage in Windows 8 Pro x64. The cause was svchost running at a constant 25% CPU, even at idle. I checked the services that the svchost was running, and toggled ...
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IPv6-connected FreeBSD server is not available via LAN
My Setup
I have a FreeBSD server with the following output of uname -a:
FreeBSD glacier 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012
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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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How to configure ipv6 subnet? [closed]
I have vps with Ubuntu 12.10 x32 and several ipv6 onboard
root@ :~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 38.--.--.--
gateway 38.--.--.-
netmask ...
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What interesting uses for IPv6 are out there? [closed]
IPv6 is reasonably easy to setup these days via 6to4 tunneling, but once done, what does one do with it? What interesting services are out there already using IPv6 or providing exclusive features over ...
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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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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 to set up Teredo tunnel and share it?
How do I enable Teredo tunneling to the default Microsoft server mentioned in the Wikipedia article (teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com)? Google did not find any documentation, reliable or otherwise, to do ...
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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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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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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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How to connect a website has only IPv6 address without domain name?
If a server has only IPv6 address without domain name, how can I connect to server from my web-browser?
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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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Is IPv6 'faster' than IPv4?
Are there any practical speed/latency gains from using IPv6, or is it just to make more room in the wild wild web?
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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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How to Disable IPv6 on RHEL-5
I am trying to disable IPv6 on interface eth0 on RHEL 5.
Here is a description of what I have attempted.
I had already made following entries in ifcfg-eth0 :
IPv6INIT=NO
IPV6AUTOCONF=NO
Following ...
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How to get the IPV6 IP address of Linux machine?
I want to get IPV6 address on my linux box.
I know one command to get the IPV6 address.
Command:
$ ip addr show dev eth0 | sed -e's/^.*inet6 \([^ ]*\)\/.*$/\1/;t;d'
Output:
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OS X ping6 does not use temporary address
I use OS X 10.8.3 and my home router serves my home network with a ULA prefix (my ISP does not support IPv6 yet).
Because I have privacy extensions enabled on OS X (default since Lion) I get a ...
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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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linux ipv6 default route to loopback
I am trying to understand what is the reason that in recent linux kernels there is ipv6 default route to loopback
::/0 :: !n -1 1 4 lo
is it ...
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Does presence of Link local address mean the system support IPv6?
I am trying to implement dual stack for IPv6 support in a IPv4 system. I have configured a DHCP server which gives IPv4 and IPv6 address to the device.
My PC and the VM running on it gets both, IPv6 ...
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Why is there a percent sign '%' in the IPv6 address?
I am using the .NET Framework classes to get the IP addresses for my machine.
Dns.GetHostAddresses(Dns.GetHostName())
I have a VirtualBox adapter which has both an IPv4 and IPv6 address. Using the ...
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Why do I get “General Failure” when pinging host name on a Win 7 node on the network?
This is a very peculiar problem with a station on our network. The client pc is running Windows 7 Pro. What makes this problem interesting is that this client is the only node on the network that ...
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IPv6 routing with multi hop network - using /64 as prefix
I have a scenario, where my PC(SYSTEM1) acts as a router/packet forwarder. And i wanted to have my other PC(SYSTEM2) connected to router(R1) via SYSTEM1. If the subnet length is /48, i know it is easy ...
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Setup IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel using my own ISP provided ipv6 address
I have IPv6 address {/64 prefix} in my home network. And I have a scenario where a tunnel has to be created to my home network from the laptop i carry with 3G dongle(ISP-BSNL), provided with IPv4-NAT.
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Weird behaviour on MacBook using IPv6
I recently discovered that my ISP supports IPv6 so I decided to give it a spin, configured the router, tried pinging ipv6.google.com from the router, all fine. I configure RADVD for the internal ...
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4in6 tunneling (via OpenVPN?)
I have a local network with internet access. But unfortunately IPv4 internet connection speed is limited to 1mbps, which is realy sad. Fortunately I have a native IPv6, and there is no connection ...
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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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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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Too many Tunnel Adapter Interfaces
If I open a command prompt on my machine and type ipconfig /all, I see lots of
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:
Media state . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
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windows 7 didn't do aaaa record lookup
My laptop is installed with Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate , 64 bit version.
Recently, I went to the university, which only provides ipv6.
I've built a OpenVPN Tunnel to handle ipv4 traffic, but I've found ...
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ipv6 compatibility, are there any pitfalls? [closed]
i don't know if this question fits perfect on superuser but i'll ask anyways feel free to move.
are there any pitfalls with ipv6? we are planning to move our webservers to an ipv6 only machine, is ...
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How to use router advertisements in openwrt?
I'm running an openwrt in a VM which is tunneled to a server that gives IPv6 address (bridged connection on eth0). That works fine. I'm using ping6 successfully. I have a second network on eth1. An ...
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Why does Windows 7 override IPv6 interface flags?
I'm setting up a basic IPv6 network and when I was configuring one client I observed that after some time the OS enables "managed address configuration" and "other stateful configuration" when "router ...
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How to disable IPv6 on Debian Wheezy?
I know there's a wiki entry http://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6 that shows how to disable IPv6 in Debian Squeeze, but that's a 2.6.* kernel.
What about 3.2.* kernels running ...
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How to disable autoconfiguration on IPv6 in Linux?
How can I permanently disable autoconfiguration of IPv6 in Linux? When I try to manually delete an address from an interface with:
ip -6 addr del 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334/64 dev eth1
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I have IPv6. Why does my connection to the Windows Store fail?
I recently installed Windows 8, and I am unable to access the Store.
I receive the error:
We weren't able to connect to the Store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the ...
