IPv6 Playtime?

Hi,

Well all know we're gonna have to get familiar with it, live with it, and love it. But that doesn't bother me much because there seems to be a couple of benefits coming from it, such as static IP's and a slight increase in security and i even heard it may increase speed just a tad cause there wouldn't be a use for DNS anymore. Correct me if i'm wrong... but it sure sounds fun!

So what i want to know ... is it possible to set certain things up to be able to use ipv6 without conflict? I just check mail, play starcraft 2, diablo 3, and thats pretty much it.

I also read that i had to ensure that my ISP (TimeWarnerCable) must be able to support it as well... So is this the type of situation where both my ISP and the application have to be compliant?

Thanks in advance for ya'lls input.

I'll refer you to this earlier discussion about IPv4 and IPv6. The article I referenced in my post #2 has a lot of info concerning the changeover. Bottom line is your ISP must support IPv6.

IPv6 to replace IPv4?

marsmimar said:

I'll refer you to this earlier discussion about IPv4 and IPv6. The article I referenced in my post #2 has a lot of info concerning the changeover. Bottom line is your ISP must support IPv6.

IPv6 to replace IPv4?

Yea i called TWC the same day i posted. They don't use it yet. Businesses only.

I've got AT&T and they say it will probably be a year or more before they make IPv6 available to us lowly civilians. Businesses will get it first.

marsmimar said:

I've got AT&T and they say it will probably be a year or more before they make IPv6 available to us lowly civilians. Businesses will get it first.

That sucks. I don't wanna pay extra for static IP. I want to use IPv6 and see what it's capable of. Of course that means the networking portion of sevenforums will be extremely busy on that day, lol.

No more DNS? That seems awesome. I wonder if that will have a negative or positive effect on security? Im guessing a positive effect.

Oh and correct me if i'm wrong... but wont the format for the IP addresses stay the same for IPv6? Only 6 octets instead of 4? Or will it look completely different? You dont have to answer that i'm just curious.

IPv6 addresses will be denoted by eight groups of hexadecimal quartets separated by colons in between them. Example:

2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652

Any four-digit group of zeroes within an IPv6 address may be reduced to a single zero or altogether omitted. Therefore, the following IPv6 addresses are similar and equally valid:

2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652
2001:cdba:0:0:0:0:3257:9652
2001:cdba::3257:9652

Source

marsmimar said:

IPv6 addresses will be denoted by eight groups of hexadecimal quartets separated by colons in between them. Example:

2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652

Any four-digit group of zeroes within an IPv6 address may be reduced to a single zero or altogether omitted. Therefore, the following IPv6 addresses are similar and equally valid:

2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652
2001:cdba:0:0:0:0:3257:9652
2001:cdba::3257:9652

Source

Right i get it... pretty much because the 0's don't mean anything so you can leave all of them out except one. Makes sense... unless i'm wrong haha

doubled822 said:

DNS will absolutely still be necessary for IPv6, if not moreso than before! Those numbers must be translated to names for our human brains to remember them!

Was wondering how they would resolve that once i started thinking about it lol