If your router has 6to4 automatic tunneling configured your LAN clients will need IPv6 installed and configured.
virtually all distributions of Linux < 8 years old, *BSD, Windows Vista, Windows 7 will all be fine out of the box. Windows XP will be find once you do an "ipv6 install" from a cmd.exe window. On 2/4/2011 1:09 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> > wrote: >>> 1. Browser is instructed to go www.example.com >>> 2. DNS returns only an IPv6 address record (AAAA) for that site >>> 3. Browser computer has only IPv4 connectivity >>> 4. Now what? >>> >>> The browser cannot plug an IPv6 address into the IPv4 stack. >> >> Handled in the 6to4 and Teredo specs. The router returns a reverse NAT for >> the >> browser to respond to which it rewrites and then forwards. > > Right, but that still requires client-side support, doesn't it? If > your clients are IPv4 only, they're not going to know about any of > that. If you're transporting IPv6 over IPv4 on the LAN, you're still > running IPv6 on the clients. No? -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
