Subj : ipv6
To   : Ben Ritchey
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon May 01 2017 01:35:08

Hello Ben,

On Sunday April 30 2017 18:29, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Win XP (from SP2 IIRC) supports IPv6. But... it is not enabled by
 MV>> default.
 MV>> Type "ipv6 install" at the command prompt.

 BR> Cool, it worked {chuckle} but which addy do I use?

Ok. So far so good. Your OS supports IPv6.

But...

 BR> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

 BR>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : lusfiber.net
 BR>         IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.124
 BR>         Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
 BR>         IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::203:ffff:fe2c:6191%5
 BR>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

That apparently is your interface to the LAN.

There is an IPv6 address. But... is is just a so called link local address. They all start with fe80:: It is the IPv6 brother of the 192.168.x.y IPv4 addresses. It is only valid on the local link. So you have a computer that is IPv6 capable, but it does not have a connection to the IPv6 outside world yet.

When you have an outside IPv6 connection you should see is some adrresses starting with 2xxx:

Like this:

Ethernetadapter LAN-Verbindung:

        Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.178.15
        Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:3500:1243:439d:93c5
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:437:775:2d98:705
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:cc66:f07b:afbc:666b
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:b132:9891:5b81:f318
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:2c79:6c9d:1741:5fb6
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:dd71:60b6:b5d6:eef2
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:b856:d0e5:cfab:50e8
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:1c02:1100:fd00:215:60ff:fe52:213d
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::215:60ff:fe52:213d%4
        Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.178.1
                                            fe80::7277:81ff:fe72:a4bb%4

Your router should broadcast so called "router advertisments". The devices connected to that router are assigned globaly routable IPv6 adresses from those router advertisements. It seems your router does not broadcast router advertisements...


Forget about the other so called "interfaces" listed below.

 BR> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:

 BR>         Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

 BR> Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

 BR>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
 BR>         IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::ffff:ffff:fffd%4
 BR>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

 BR> Tunnel adapter Automatic Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:

 BR>         Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : lusfiber.net
 BR>         IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.1.124%2
 BR>         Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :



Cheers, Michiel

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