Subj : Birthday present from he.net
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Thu Jul 07 2016 10:00:04

  Re: Birthday present from he.net
  By: Richard Menedetter to Joe Delahaye on Thu Jul 07 2016 13:11:06

 JD>> My BBS machine is part of the network.  All of my connected
 JD>> networked systems have an internal (at least) ipv6 address,
 JD>> including the Router.

 RM> With internal you mean one starting with fe80?

No they all start with 2607


 JD>> I have tried the above BTW.
 JD>> I have tried the above BTW.
 JD>> If I do so, I show no WAN address at all.

 RM> What shows no WAN address??

The Internet connection page.  I can see Wan IPv6 Address, Default Gateway,
Primary and secondary servers.  For both Ipv4 and 6 depending on which link I
click on.


 RM> Have you tried pinging ipv6.google.com?

C:\Windows\system32>PING ipv6.google.com

Pinging ipv6.l.google.com [2607:f8b0:400b:80b::200e] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 2607:f8b0:400b:80b::200e:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Windows\system32>
--- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32
 * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)

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