I took my linksys with dd-wrt, Using the tcp/ip function getaddrinfo() (see documents from Beej's website and also his free source code), you will see the IPV6 address from the website he setup as a test.
Leslie On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:21:17PM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > > Hi Hendrik > > What about all the routers out there? Would not the ISP do the > translation from ipv6 to ipv4 for you? And yes, you should still have your > static ip address. > > That would have been nice. But I gather some of the higher-level > protocols are different, using pecific features of IPv6, and protocol > translation may not be trivial. That said, it's probably somewhat > feasible to so a somewhat decent job. The basic problem is that the > IPv6 inventors had not planned interoperability between IPv4 and > IPv6. They had some idea that everyone would gradually acquire > dual-stack systems that could operate in both modes. But in real-life > terms, that hasn't happened. Oh, countries who were originally > allocated a critical shortage of class A networks have already gone and > done this because they had to. But North America is a holdout. > And the annoying thing is that most current OS's, such as Windows, OS/X > Macs, Linuxes already are IPv6-capable. It's the ISPs that are the > bottleneck. > > I actually don't know which routers do IPv6 and which don't. I suspect > in any case that it's just a firmware change. If the manufacturer still > suupports that router model, anyway. Otherwise firmware might be hard > to come by. > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- -- Mr Leslie Satenstein, Skype: lsatenstein [email protected] www.itbms.biz Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The content of this e-mail is confidential, may be privileged and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. Any other person is strictly prohibited from disclosing, distributing or reproducing it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and delete all copies. Thank you. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALITÉ: Le contenu de ce courriel est confidentiel, peut être protégé par le secret professionnel et est à l'usage exclusif du destinataire mentionné ci-dessus. Toute autre personne est avisée qu'il lui est strictement interdit de diffuser, distribuer ou reproduire ce message. Si vous avez reçu ce message par erreur, veuillez nous en aviser immédiatement par téléphone et en effacer toutes les copies. Merci. AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: El contenido de este correo es confidencial, puede ser protegido por el secreto profesional y es de uso exclusivo del destinatario mencionado arriba. Cualquier otra persona que lo reciba, le está estrictamente prohibido difundir, distribuir o reproducir este mensaje. Si usted recibió este mensaje por error, por favor notifíquenos inmediatamente por teléfono y suprima todas las copias. Gracias.
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