Severa said:
Had a sec, so I Googled 'turn off IPv6 vista' and found this:
Microsoft TECHNET - Configuring IPv6 with Windows Vista
IPv6 can't be uninstalled on Vista but it can be disabled. Go to that page and scroll to the bottom section entitled 'Disabling IPv6'
Hope this helps!
And it is best turned off until you understand IPv6 and how to configure it.
IPv6 is on the way but we will be in dual stack mode for a reasonable time. There is no cut off date on IPv4 yet.
I guess most know what an IPv4 address looks like - 10.0.1.1/24 or 192.168.1.5 mask 255.255.255.0.
An IPv6 address looks like DEAD: BEEF: 0000: 0000: 0000: 0073: FEED: F00D. The 00 in F00D are zeros. The addresses are in hex using "numbers" 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,. 9, A, B, C, D, E, F. The :: stands for any number of repeated :0000:0000: groups but can only be used once per address and any leading 0 can be omitted., so the short form of the IPv6 address is DEAD: BEEF:: 73: FEED: F00D. There is no net mask. There is a slash that indicates how many bit form the network portion of the address, i.e., DEAD: BEEF:: 0073: FEED: F00D/64.
Localhost in IPv4 is 127.0.0.1. In IPv6, it is 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 which reduces to ::1.
We are running out of IPv4 IP numbers. IPv6 provides for more than 3.4 trillion, trillion, trillion IP numbers. Just about 1000 IPs for every person on earth. They figure that even appliances like refrigerators will be connected to the net and send diagnostic information vie email.
It is powerful, convenient, and dangerous if you don't know what you are doing because of the self-configuration, joining of network ability.
IPv6 is available in XP, but it must be installed. IPv6 is in recent Linux kernels and on by default, but FC6 comes with an IPv6 firewall.
