Someone mentioned that recent distributions<div>come with IPv6 enabled. How might one verify</div><div>that it is enabled?</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 13:06 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://www.isc.org/software/aftr" target="_blank">http://www.isc.org/software/aftr</a><br>
> It sounds like a tool intended to allow IPv6-only client nodes to<br>
> access IPv4-only content providers over an IPv6 network.<br>
> Here's what I find *particularly* interesting. They credit Comcast as<br>
> a co-developer partner. The implication is that America's largest<br>
> broadband provider is researching giving their end-users native IPv6<br>
> functionality.<br>
<br>
</div>I've talked to Comcast customers who indicated they *have* [currently]<br>
IPv6 connectivity. Suddenly IPv6 enabled hosts [LINUX, Windows<br>
Vista/7] suddenly acquire routable IPv6 addresses (the cable models run<br>
an IPv6 router address discovery service [radvd]).<br>
<br>
Also IPv6 is included in recent versions of DOCSIS [3.0?] so all current<br>
cable modems support it. IPv6 support has been available as an<br>
extension to DOCSIS 2.0 for some time.<br>
<br>
Several carriers have adopted IPv6 on their backbone even if they don't<br>
yet open it up to their customers for management purposes [IPv6 is<br>
easier to administer at-scale than IPv4]. In that case something like<br>
AFTR makes a great deal of sense.<br>
<br>
As an aside, the IPv4 address space exists as a section of the IPv6<br>
address space; so IPv4 addresses have been reachable from IPv6 since day<br>
one. Either via ::ffff:0:0/96 or 2002::/16 (although, of course, the<br>
devil is in the details).<br>
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