I'm afraid this is the best evidence I could find. This link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726952.aspx talks about services creating tunnel adapters which is what I see when I run IPconfig.
--- Florent Daigni?re <nextgens at freenetproject.org> wrote: > * Thomas Young <scipantheist at yahoo.com> [2007-11-29 > 14:09:55]: > > > > 3. When IP addresses are detected by > > > IPAddressDetector, there is no checking to see > > whether > > > this interface is actually connected to another > > > computer. In my case, > > IPAddressDetector.getAddress() > > > returns an IPv6 address that is assigned to one > of > > my > > > Ethernet ports. I am not sure how this address > was > > > assigned, since that port is not connected to > > anything > > > at the moment. I am using a wireless adapter. > I am > > > guessing that other people like me who don't > know > > how > > > to flush old IPv6 addresses will have this > problem. > > > The consequence of this is that > IPDetectorPlugins > > will > > > not be used because the plugin manager thinks I > have > > a > > > public IP address and am just firewalled at the > > > moment. The only way I see to fix this is to > either > > > ignore all IPv6 addresses or find a way to > detect > > > whether this interface is connected to another > > > computer. > > > > Ugh. Well if they are auto-assigned they should > show > > up as link-local, > > so it > > would still run the detection, no? > > > > > > Thank you for reading this. > > > > > > -Thomas Young > > > > I have done a little more research and it seems > that > > Vista creates virtual adapters that have IPv6 > > addresses. These addresses are not link local > since > > they start with 2001:0/32 for me. In any case, > > IPAddressDetector.getAddress() happily returns > this as > > a public IPv6 address. I should also mention that > the > > logic in > > > IPDetectorPluginManager.shouldDetectDespiteRealIP() > > follows the strict condition to detect only if > there > > are less than 3 peers and there is a peer more > than 30 > > minutes old. Should that condition be relaxed > > somewhat for 0 peers? > > > > -Thomas Young > > I doubt that even vista is that silly. Don't you > have someone on your > LAN spamming router advertisements for prefixes he > doesn't route ? > > NextGen$ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
