IPv6

[Radar]

What is IPv6 for?



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[Xprotocol]

IPv6 is version 6 of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It has been released and some companies have purchased it for their use. Right now, most people use IPv4 to use the Internet or a network. IPv6 will support more IP addresses than IPv4. If the world were to stay with IPv4, it is estimated that IP addresses will run out by 2010. IPv4 only supports about 4.25 billion addresses. IPv6 goes above the trillions to the next number by using a 128-bit hexadecimal IP address. So one day, your address will look something like this.
A67B:FDE5:903C:F54A:C783:BFA9:892E:E45F
IPv6 is backwords compatible with IPv4 technology, so it is possible for the world to slowly migrate to IPv6 rather than one big jump. Hopefully this clears things up http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif.


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[vhg119]

cleared it up for me!
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[btberch]

If you have python you can run a conversion script.

To convert say 192.168.1.3 do the following

>>> "%02x%02x:%02x%02x"%(192,168,1,3)
'c0a8:0103'
>>>

note in the formula you use "," instead of "."

[btberch]

One other thing, this is that is not the full ipv6, but this is:

0:0:0:0:0:0:c0a8:103 or ::c0a8:103

[Radar]

Thanks!

I wonder, do you need to have IPv4 to use ppp? I think I installed with IPv6 and cannot surf.

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[Strike]

Yeah, most places use IPv4 right now. I don't think IPv6 is used much "in the wild" right now, and it probably won't until MS decides to start supporting it. Bleh.

[Radar]

Well, I'm posting from my Debian box with Mozilla. I must have screwed up the last install, so I reinstalled with only ppp support and configured everything the same.

Thanks for the help!


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