IPv6 and Vista

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to setup IPv6 on Vista, however i can't seem to find any actual information on how to set it up. (only articles on how the end of the internet is near due to windows supporting both ipv6 and ipv4! lol)

I've registered at http://broker.aarnet.net.au/ and requested an IPv6 address however it wants me to use this TSP client

Anyone have any information on how to set it up to work on the internet?

thanks

IPV6 is Default in Vista
also look here http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=257330 

Does anyone know if there are even any home/soho routers available on the market yet that support IPV6? Still hunting for a DSL and Wireless version.

FDB

FluffyDevilBunny wrote:

Does anyone know if there are even any home/soho routers available on the market yet that support IPV6? Still hunting for a DSL and Wireless version.

FDB

I thought the tunneling only applied to XP. The way I understood it was that IPV6 in XP was a tunnel protocol that went through IPV4 and in Vista it became a stack instead of a tunnel. So Vista either connects direct IPV6 to IPV6 or IPV4 to IPV4 and without a supporting router the transit is lost if a downgrade to IPV4 can't be performed. Is this wrong?

FDB

FluffyDevilBunny wrote:

I thought the tunneling only applied to XP. The way I understood it was that IPV6 in XP was a tunnel protocol that went through IPV4 and in Vista it became a stack instead of a tunnel. So Vista either connects direct IPV6 to IPV6 or IPV4 to IPV4 and without a supporting router the transit is lost if a downgrade to IPV4 can't be performed. Is this wrong?

FDB

Your ISP will need to provide you with a IPv6 address (most don't) and any local routers would need to be IPv6 compatible (most aren't) otherwise you are going to be using Teredo tunnelling, which doesn't require you to do anything on Vista.

AndyC wrote:

Your ISP will need to provide you with a IPv6 address (most don't) and any local routers would need to be IPv6 compatible (most aren't) otherwise you are going to be using Teredo tunnelling, which doesn't require you to do anything on Vista.

Is there any compelling reason to go through the effort of setting up IPv6 now anyways?  I can understand using it once the infrastructure (routers, etc.) is in place across the board, but right now it doesn't make sense to mess with tunnelling and all just for IPv6 connectivity.

I got it to work. It was me that was stopping ipv6 to work!

I tried to set it up like i would in XP and that ended up being the problem.

In Vista you dont have to do anything.. at all

Although the http://ipv6.research.microsoft.com/ site doesn't appear to work, but http://www.ipv6.bt.com/ does.

I also did a ping -6 www.ipv6.bt.com and that worked as well.

Its funny how when we expect something to be really hard we make it so. I didn't even think to try it without setting it up.

btw to clear all my wrong doings and make it work i did a:
netsh interface ipv6 reset

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

Is there any compelling reason to go through the effort of setting up IPv6 now anyways?  I can understand using it once the infrastructure (routers, etc.) is in place across the board, but right now it doesn't make sense to mess with tunnelling and all just for IPv6 connectivity.