CW,
OK. I get the "last few years" comment. I won't pin you down to years.
I'll go dig at DLink. TNX.
I love this. More research!
Best,
Duncan
On 08/01/2010 20:42, [email protected] wrote:
For the most part your router should sort this out transparent to machines
behind it, as long as its fw is within the last few years.
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From: Brian Weeden<[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 15:56:21
To: [email protected]<[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Cc: Hardware Group<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] IPv6
Ipv6 implements a 128-bit address space compared to the 32-bits available under
ipv4. So yeah. The addresses have a lot more characters :)
For the end user, I'm not sure if you will be forced to use the new ip naming
scheme on your internal LAN.
Most modern OSes already support ipv6. Some hardware does.
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Brian
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On 2010-08-01, at 3:39 PM, DSinc<[email protected]> wrote:
I heard a 15 minute interview yesterday that indicates that IPv6 is to be
implemented some time in 2011. I've known that IPv6 has been in the works for
quite a while.
I've seen some IPv6 addresses. They look to be hexidecimal based.
Somehow I got the impression that it would be transparent to me and my home LAN.
Perhaps my bad!
Now, I'm beginning to wonder what the future of IPv6 may require me to do or
update.
Am I looking at f/w updates to my router?
Am I looking at f/w updates to my switches?
Am I looking at driver updates for onboard NIC logic?
Am I looking at driver updates for add-on NIC cards?
Is anyone in the collective really up on the IPv6 business and pending roll-out?
Best,
Duncan
