Moving to IPv6

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 9 15:06:14 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:05:35PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 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.

OK, prefixing with all zeros would make sense.  That doesn't waste a lot
of the address space.  It is certainly not routeable though in general,
since something does have to convert between IPv6 and IPv4.

So yeah IPv6 devices required.

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