Moving to IPv6

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> So you would have to add 12 zeroes to an IPv4 address to make it the
> right size.  That however doesn't match with how IPv6 addresses are
> supposed to get allocated as far as I know.
>
> I have seen tunnels use FE:80::(IPv4 address) as the local address.
> That is, 192.168.1.1 would be FE80:0:0:0:0:0:C0A8:101 if used as a base
> for the link local address.

There are a couple of methods specified in RFC 4291.  These are 
::192.168.1.1 and ::ffff:192.168.1.1.  I've got the 1st one to work on 
my local network.  However, it only works with devices that understand 
the IPv6 format.

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