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Crash2009
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IPV6
How do I find out if I need to start thinking about turning on IPV6? I just installed new firmware for my router and now it has this IPV6 option. Should it be turned on? and if so, what setting?
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TeddyR
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Well... It depends... 
At this time it will not add much to the htpc experience.
If your ISP already has native IPV6, then the dhcpv6 option should be the easiest to enable it.
If you are on Charter, then the 6rd option would be the one to select.
For Charter: http://www.myaccount.charter.com/custom ... cleID=2665
For Comcast: http://www.comcast6.net/
If your ISP does NOT have native ipv6, but you still want to try it out you can try a free ipv6 tunnel broker like Hurricane Electrics tunnel services. http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ which use 4to6 gateways
At this time it will not add much to the htpc experience.
If your ISP already has native IPV6, then the dhcpv6 option should be the easiest to enable it.
If you are on Charter, then the 6rd option would be the one to select.
For Charter: http://www.myaccount.charter.com/custom ... cleID=2665
For Comcast: http://www.comcast6.net/
If your ISP does NOT have native ipv6, but you still want to try it out you can try a free ipv6 tunnel broker like Hurricane Electrics tunnel services. http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ which use 4to6 gateways
Time is on my side.
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Crash2009
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I'm with Comcast. I guess they were ready and waiting for me to turn it on. I don't see where IPV6 does anything to improve anything. What's the purpose of all this tunnelling stuff? Can you pour some video down the pipe?
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Venom51
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In an attempt to wrap my brain around it I put in a couple IPv6 capable switches and changed the IOS load on my 2811 and managed to work on it a bit tonight. There are things I still don't fully understand but I did get it up and working. The method for address assignment is pretty slick.
Now I have build out and test my IPv6 ACL's.
Now I have build out and test my IPv6 ACL's.
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STC
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Some nice schema;
http://www.semaphore.com/blog/2011/04/1 ... -adoption/
http://www.semaphore.com/blog/2011/04/1 ... -adoption/
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Venom51
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The advantages are not specifically data speed related. This is about address space, the ability to route directly to every machine on the planet. No more NAT or PAT. All of this makes it easier for you to access any device in your network from anywhere once IPv6 is everywhere. You'll no longer have to forward incoming traffic on your 1 public IP address to the specific machine inside your network you want to access. Every machine in your network can have a globally routable IP.
It does mean however that you are no longer going to be invisible behind NAT. You'll have to know more about what types of traffic you want to let in and out of your network. Now that doesn't mean that NAT isn't available in IPv6 but it kind of defeats the purpose of creating the extremely large address space.
It does mean however that you are no longer going to be invisible behind NAT. You'll have to know more about what types of traffic you want to let in and out of your network. Now that doesn't mean that NAT isn't available in IPv6 but it kind of defeats the purpose of creating the extremely large address space.