[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: current IPv6 implementation / configuration



Brian McCullough wrote:
[..]
> One side question.  Do I want to remove the IPv4 connectivity between
> the machines in the internal network

You will (unless being experimental) want to keep your existing IPv4
connectivity in place. DNS for instance on some platforms simply doesn't
happen yet over IPv6, next to that little fact that a lot of domains
their nameservers are not reachable.

> so that I know that they are using IPv6, or how to I tell, other than
ping6?

On unixes 'ping' is IPv4, 'ping6' is IPv6. Solaris is an exception here
afaik, and on Windows 'ping' can also do IPv4 and IPv6. Therefor, there
is generally a 'ping -4 example.com' and 'ping -6 example.com' and
generally also a '-n' option so that you see the numeric addresses.

> That doesn't tell me about the applications' use of IPv6.

Well, the clue about it all is that it should be seemless if things are
IPv4 or IPv6 and it should not matter what you use, as long as it works.

First of all you need to have a AAAA in DNS, secondly the app generally
claims to do IPv6, and lastly you can always check with Wireshark or
tshark/tcpdump what is really going on.

Greets,
 Jeroen


Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


Reply to: