ip v6 @ home

toothe

toothe

toothe

Associate
Joined
19 Nov 2007
Posts
228
Hi, has anyone set up an ipv6 network at home yet, looking into setting one up soon (need to learn about it for uni before everyone says whats the point) and someone needs to do it first ;)
 
Erm, whats the point of installed IPv6 at home? Your home network can't be that big that your running out of IP addresses.
 
as i said (if you read the first post) i need to learn it for uni, and its not going to cause any major problems by running it at home and ipv6 doesnt just deal with the advances of addressing there is many other major steps forward.
i currently use about 32 internal ips and 8 external ips, so no ipv4 is more than enough but i need and wana learn ipv6.
 
Like I said, whats the point? If you need to learn it at uni, then surely they will provide you with the resources to do this at uni.
 
yea they provide the resources but means i have to spend time in uni when i wana be at home doing at my own speed.

eventually it will be common practice to use ipv6 and my isp are also looking into providing ipv6 addresses, so doing it at home would be good learning curve.

i take it you havent set up ipv6?
 
Just because your ISP is looking into providing IPv6 addresses, doesn't mean that you need to change your internal IP addresses. Also if your ISP is providing you with IPv6 addresses, you don't really need to do anything...ok you may have to change your router or a settings somewhere, but your ISP will deal with the all major changes.
 
hamesy if you havent set one up or dont want to help the stop posting.

i am setting up a ipv6 on the internal side of the network. i was just asking has anyone else done it, did they run into problems. i know windows xp can have trouble with ipv6 stack etc.
 
Hello, I've done it.

It's useful - the complication of NAT is removed, and it's good for thinking about how ip networks work.

I use sixxs.net as a tunnelbroker, and just configured my router (cisco 837) to use this tunnel. The router is also set up to advertise the ipv6 subnet and all hosts on the network automatically pick up an address.

I've had more problems in Vista than XP to be honest. Once the ipv6 driver is installed, it worked pretty well. Vista seems to have real difficulty in doing ipv6 dns lookups however, which I can't find a good answer to. For example, some of the time, I can access ipv6 sites and my mailserver using just the ip address, but using the dns name fails. Sometimes this is fixed by a reboot, but will be broken next time. So my advice would be to steer clear of vista for the moment.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom