[olug] bad practices at home

Jay Woods woodsjay at home.com
Mon May 21 17:24:48 UTC 2001


I smell a OLUG meeting seminar here. I'd like to IPv6 going on my internal net
(just for practice) but haven't known enough to even start it. ---Jay

Brian Roberson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon" <thechunk at thechunk.dhs.org>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [olug] bad practices at home
>
> >I am actually greatful you can help me with this.
> yikes!
>
> > I just know that the standard exists most OS are ready for it and no one
> is doing it.
> try to enable ipv6 on NT....
>
> > What has to happen?  If someone started implementing an IPV6 network
> internally can they do mapping to the internet?
> I think this is feasible, but never attempted it.
>
> >I was under the impression ( read ignorance ) that the two protocols where
> compatible.
> at Layer1/2 they are, layer 3 and up ( ipv(4/6) is layer 3 in the OSI
> model ) they are not compatible, that is the nature of the beast... routing
> for v4/v6 as you may have guessed does not intermigle due to the layer they
> run at (layer 3).
>
> >  Anyway I am just curious.   Hope I am not offending anyone.
> > -Jon
>
> absolutely not, good discusion on the list is always welcome :-)
>
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