From: Victor Solaz (vsolaz@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 06:16:02 ART
Hi Leigh,
This will be the catalyst for ipv6:
http://www.ipv6experiment.com/
On 5/24/07, Leigh Harrison <ccileigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> #15331
>
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