Monthly Archives: February 2011

IPv6: Devices

February 20, 2011 – 15:57

After enabling IPv6 on my router, I tried using it on all of my devices. For testing, I used [ipv6.google.com](http://ipv6.google.com) and [test-ipv6](http://test-ipv6.com/). * Mac OS X just worked. It got IPv6 address through stateless autoconfiguration from the router. * [Fedora Linux](http://fedoraproject.org) also just worked. * Windows 7 supports IPv6. It didn’t work at first but […]

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IPv6: Linksys, DD-WRT, Comcast 6to4

February 20, 2011 – 15:21

I got IPv6 working with my home router, DD-WRT, and Comcast’s 6to4 service. [6to4](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4) works by setting up a tunnel for IPv6 over IPv4. It uses the anycast address 192.88.99.1 as the tunnel endpoint. The IPv6 address is constructed from the host’s IPv4 address with 2002: prefix. 6to4 only works for hosts with public IP […]

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