Here are some things you can’t yet do with IPv6: PXE Boot: There is no Preboot eXecutable Environment boot standard for IPv6 yet, but there are some developments towards this goal. PXE v2.1 is a 1999 non-open standard, and it…
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IPv6 Policy Routing Linux Gotchas
I have two IPv6 tunnels with subnets, one from SixXS and one from Hurricane Electric. (Why? Eh, I’m a tinkerer.) I had them both active and responding to tunnel broker pings on my Cisco E2000 with DD-WRT v24-sp2 rev 14929 firmware, but…
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IPv6, Autoconfiguration and 169.254.0.0/16
Another search term I am seeing is “169.254.0.0/16 ipv6 equivalent”. In IPv4, the 169.254.0.0/16 range is what you get if nobody tells your computer what IP address it should have. Many printers and other network devices will pick one of…
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How To “arp -a” In IPv6
How to perform the equivalent of “arp -a” in IPv6 for Windows and Linux with video and text demonstrations.
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IPv6 Caveats
Most of these caveats are really with the software specified and not IPv6 itself: Windows XP natively supports IPv6, but it does not provide its IPv6 address to DDNS and cannot use IPv6 for file sharing, remote desktop or name…
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IPv6 Is Like IPv4
IPv6 is touted as having new features and terminology, but really it isn’t that different from IPv4.
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IPv6 Basics
Most people seem to miss the point of IPv6. Here are some of the basics.
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