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Is "IPv10" a joke or a serious RFC draft?
As Ron said, anyone can write a proposal. I have a hard time taking proposals seriously from someone who suggests interconnecting satellites with optical fiber, though.
Also, I can't imagine this ...
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Is "IPv10" a joke or a serious RFC draft?
You must remember that anyone can submit proposals to the IETF, and they are taken seriously, until they are either adopted or die due to lack of interest.
This particular proposal has expired and ...
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Is "IPv10" a joke or a serious RFC draft?
Is “IPv10” a joke or a serious RFC draft?
Both. That draft doesn't solve a single problem but opens a can of new ones. I guess that bloke is serious and he doesn't get what ridiculous schemes he's ...
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How is NAT a hack?
Before NAT every device connected to the internet had its own IP address. That was how the internet was designed. This gives you great flexibility and visibility. If you have a firewall then it can ...
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How is NAT a hack?
I've been told that this was a hack; simply because the Internet was
running out of ipv4 addresses.
That's correct. The original concept of IPv4 was to provide end-to-end connectivity so that each ...
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What are the correct protocol versions (v4 vs v6) for packets inside DS-Lite tunnels?
The consensus of the comments is
The segments are inside IPv4
The protocol of TCP happens to be 6 and it's not its IP version number
As you say, if you're looking for 4s vs 6s for protocol versions, ...
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How does computer in IPv4 network communicate with computer in IPv6 network
IPv4 and IPv6 are two completely separate protocols, with separate, incompatible packet headers and addressing, and an IPv4-only host cannot directly communicate with an IPv6-only host.
The correct ...
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Since we ran out of IPv4 now, what does it mean for consumers?
ARIN ran out of IPv4 addresses to supply to the carriers. There is a market for blocks of IPv4 addresses, but it is supply and demand driven. Since the supply is dwindling, and demand is unabated, ...
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How is NAT a hack?
Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT) have been widely deployed since the early days of the Web. It may be misleading to characterize NAT/PAT as a hack.
Restoring end-...
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IPv4 to IPv6 one-to-one mapping for a whole Class A range
First IPv4 network classes are dead, killed in 1993 by RFCs 1518 and 1519, which defined CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing). Modern networking doesn't use network classes, and it has not for many ...
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Is it possible to see a Teredo IPv6 address in IPv6 neighbor cache?
You won't see Teredo addresses in the neighbor cache, because Teredo creates a virtual point to point link and therefore has no neighbors. A neighbor is another device (which, for this purpose, speaks ...
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Security implications of IPv6 tunneling over IPv4
I've read that IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels are a security risk because IPv6 traffic cannot be intercepted by Intrusion Detection Systems and Firewalls.
That's completely untrue. Maybe some specific, very ...
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What "IVI" from "IVI Translation" stands for?
This document presents the CERNET IVI translation design and
deployment for the IPv4/IPv6 coexistence and transition. In Roman
numerals, the "IV" stands for 4, and "VI" stands for ...
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Understand DSCP and Precedence Values in Ipv4 or Ipv6 packet
The IPv4 DSCP (IPv6 Traffic Flow) packet header field can be used to mark packets for later treatment in network congestion. There are recommendations and guidelines for interpreting these values a ...
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Security implications of IPv6 tunneling over IPv4
There are a few tunneling protocols, but I'm guessing you're talking about these:
(1) 6to4 tunnels, which are trivially stopped by firewalls, as they are clearly marked as IPv4 protocol 41.
(2) teredo ...
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Translation from unique local to global unicast address
There's a multitude of IPv4-to-IPv6 transitioning mechanisms - for an overview check WP:IPv6 transition mechanism.
IPv6 is normally deployed (and should be) with local and public IP addresses ...
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What are the correct protocol versions (v4 vs v6) for packets inside DS-Lite tunnels?
Turns out, Wireshark confirms what our engine said - that the packet inside IPv4 layer is indeed TCPv6.
As jonathanjo already wrote: The (6) is the IPv4 (!) protocol number which is 6 for TCP and 17 ...
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How does computer in IPv4 network communicate with computer in IPv6 network
Welcome to the messy world of the IPv6 transition.
IPv4 and IPv6 are two seperate protocols that do not directly interoperate.
The IPv6 proponents idea was that we would all move to dual stack, ...
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Will home networks migrate to ipv6?
Home networks and mobile devices are usually the first to get IPv6.
This is because the devices running those networks are often provided and managed by the ISP. ISPs use lots of IPv4 addresses so ...
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IPv4 only host on a dual stack environment
Dual-stacked hosts can easily get to either IPv4 or IPv6 devices. You need to make sure that DNS is correctly set up. Such a host will probably default to IPv6 if there is a AAAA record, so you do not ...
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IPv6 Subnetworks Explanation
Maybe the simplest one: Is a v6 address static? Or can I make it static like a v4 one so that I can reach my printer at home for example?
IPv6 addresses like ipv4 ones can be either dynamic or static....
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Transition from IPv4 to IPv6: how would IHL be managed using ALG?
IPv6-only and IPv4-only hosts can't directly communicate. The IPv6 packet would never be delivered to an IPv4-only host since the IPv4-only host doesn't have an IPv6 address. Application layer ...
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Since we ran out of IPv4 now, what does it mean for consumers?
For most people, this means nothing. Telcos still have alot of addresses (used, some even unused).
What happens, depends on the country and telco. Most probably outcome is, that the cheapest internet ...
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Transmission of Data
Baseband refers to a transmission which uses all the bandwidth of a medium (encoded directly on the wire), while broadband means that a transmission only uses part of the bandwidth of a medium (...
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Is it possible to see a Teredo IPv6 address in IPv6 neighbor cache?
If you are seeing teredo addresses in a neigbour cache then something is seriously misconfigured.
Teredo creates a virtual interface on the teredo client allowing it to communicate with other teredo ...
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Benefits for adopting ipv6 internally?
What is the current status of ipv6 adoption in terms of usefulness?
Google maintains an IPv6 adoption page, and there is a per country adoption tab.
Specifically, if I have a network of ...
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Error in IPv4-to-IPv6 mapping of Google IT Support Professional online course?
Google's course is wrong.
As you correctly discovered, IPv4 address 192.168.1.1 does not map to the IPv6 address 0:0:0:0:0:ffff:d1ad:35a7.
That said, it's possible that you will be marked "wrong&...
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ISATAP configuration not working when adding hosts
solved,
Problem was not enabling ipv6 unicast routing.
this can be done by using: ipv6 unicast-routing.
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Is "IPv10" a joke or a serious RFC draft?
It's a serious attempt to solve a real problem. Whether the solution is good or bad (it's probably rubbish), its problem statement is correct: the current strategy of trying to implement IPv6 has so ...
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