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 avoid exposing my MAC address when using IPv6?
On my Macs, each IPv6 address includes the MAC address of a specific computer (not of my router). Sites such as ipv6-test.com not only show it, but even tell me it belongs to an Apple computer.
This ...
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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to disable IPv6 in Google's Chrome?
I'm developing websites in a Windows 7 machine.
When I've installed Firefox I've found some performance issue specially on connecting to the localhost, googling around I've discovered that it's ...
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Can we disable IPV4 and use purely IPV6 on Windows XP/2003?
Is there any way we can use purely IPV6 on Windows XP or Server 2003. I know an IPV4/IPV6 dual stack exists in Windows XP, I just wanted to test whether only IPV6 can be used on XP. It is possible in ...
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How will IPv6 impact everyday users? (World IPv6 Day)
With the current (one hour in at the moment) trial by all the big boys (Google, Facebook, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) I wondered how IPv6 will effect home users and the Internet as a whole.
Will the change ...
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How to disable ipv6 in Linux Mint
Note:
ip a | grep inet6
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
inet6 fe80::21c:bfff:fe76:32ec/64 scope link
lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition
Release: ...
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Ipv6 6in4 forwarding
I successfully setup 6in4 ipv6 tunnel to enable ipv6 connectivity at home using a remote linux box with a /64. The connectivity works well between the two host, but not with internet.
Here is my ...
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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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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 get Firefox/Chrome to reach IPv6 websites?
I have been experimenting with IPv6 using a Windows7 client with the default Teredo IPv6 tunnel enabled.
I can reach IPv6 hosts (ipv6.google.com & www.v6.facebook.com) successfully using PING ...
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How will home networks work in the IPv6 world?
Right now, I have a home network setup behind a Netgear router. That router has a public IP address I get from Comcast. I also have a computer setup on my home network running Linux that runs a DHCP ...
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What is the relevance of “fe80::1%lo0 localhost” in /etc/hosts?
Following are the entries in my /etc/hosts.
I was wondering what is the last entry (fe80::1%lo0 localhost) for.
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
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how to ssh to a ipv6 ubuntu in a LAN?
Hi I'm able to ping my ubuntu box via command: (where c2h2ttt is listed in /etc/hosts)
c2h2@c2h2crawler:~/ttt$ ping6 -I eth1 c2h2ttt
PING c2h2ttt(c2h2ttt) from fe80::21b:21ff:fe22:e865 eth1: 56 data ...
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How do debug DNS name resolution? (nslookup works, but telnet doesn't)
I'm trying to connect to a website:
http://superuser.com.sixxs.org
i can ping the address:
C:\Users\Ian>ping /6 superuser.com.sixxs.org
Pinging ipv6.nginx.sixxs.net [2001:838:2:1::30:67] with ...
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What happens when all IP addresses run out?
I recently read an article in which they wrote that that there will be a time when there will be no more IP addresses available. Is that right? Do I need to register a website now just in case?
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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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What protocol is Window's v6v4tunnel implementing?
Microsoft Windows allows the creation of an "IPv6-in-IPv4 point-to-point tunnel":
>netsh interface ipv6 add v6v4tunnel "My Tunnel" 192.168.1.13 209.51.181.2
My question is: what protocol is ...
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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 can I see if Windows is getting RADVD advertisements?
I'm troubleshooting my home network setup and am looking for a way to see if windows is receiving radvd advertisements on a certain interface because I believe that my router isn't sending on WLAN.
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Is it safe to use the miredo-client?
This is how I can surf websites behind IPv6 networks under Fedora 14
before:
ping6 ipv6.google.com
connect: Network is unreachable
solution: with root just:
yum install -y miredo-client
sed -i ...
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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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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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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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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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Pinging own machine returns an IPv6 address instead of IPv4
When I ping my own machine I get an IPv6 address:
Reply from fe80::1004:p8f0:9e40:a42c%10: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::1004:p8f0:9e40:a42c%10: time<1ms
I used to get the IPv4 address (eg. ...
