From: Leigh Harrison (ccileigh@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 07:23:48 ART
All,
I'm after any comments and general thoughts on Vista and Longhorns usage
of IPv6.
I discovered recently that some of the features and applications on
these OS's will ONLY run over IPv6. Some parts of server clustering in
Longhorn will only work on IPv6.
However, if the box needs to talk IPv6 and only IPv4 is available, then
it will build a tunnel between the whoever it needs to speak to in IPv4
and send the IPv6 over that.
If you've running a copy of Vista and type "ipconfig" in dos, you'll see
plenty of tunnels it's got there ready to go...
Has anyone had a look at these tunnels to see if they're encrypted or
how they're built? I've not got a copy of Vista or Longhorn at home and
I'm curious to see how my current IPv4 QoS will handle it.
I've mentioned this to my colleagues at work and they were all pretty
interested in it, but the sales folks didn't have a clue what I was on
about. Has anyone suggested to customers that they prep their networks
ready for IPv6 yet? I think there's more of a push for it out in the US
than there is here in the UK, but coming it is and it'll be here soon
enough.
Any comments welcomed.
LH
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