Comments on: Windows Xp Tips, Take A Look http://www.technicalathma.com/2008/11/windows-xp-tips-take-a-look/ The Digital Blog for Digital People Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: TJ http://www.technicalathma.com/2008/11/windows-xp-tips-take-a-look/comment-page-1/#comment-256 TJ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.technicalathma.com/2008/11/30/windows-xp-tips-take-a-look/#comment-256 WRT "XP has IP version 6 support -- the next generation of IP. Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has, so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type 'ipv6 install' into Run... (it's OK, it won't ruin your existing network setup) and then 'ipv6 /?' at the command line to find out more. If you don't know what IPv6 is, don't worry and don't bother."<br/><br/>This is not accurate. Once IPv6 is enabled, several types of "automatic tunnels" are enabled by default as well that do (attempt to) provide IPv6 connectivity. Which is good, unless you don't have an IPv6 firewall enabled as well (which is off by default, BTW).<br/><br/>Ignoring IPv6 won't make it go away, nor will it stop it from being increasingly more widespread as our world moves forward ... <br/><br/><br/>/TJ WRT “XP has IP version 6 support — the next generation of IP. Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has, so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type ‘ipv6 install’ into Run… (it’s OK, it won’t ruin your existing network setup) and then ‘ipv6 /?’ at the command line to find out more. If you don’t know what IPv6 is, don’t worry and don’t bother.”

This is not accurate. Once IPv6 is enabled, several types of “automatic tunnels” are enabled by default as well that do (attempt to) provide IPv6 connectivity. Which is good, unless you don’t have an IPv6 firewall enabled as well (which is off by default, BTW).

Ignoring IPv6 won’t make it go away, nor will it stop it from being increasingly more widespread as our world moves forward …

/TJ

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