[UK-CONTEST] N1MM and IPv6

[Dave Sergeant]

Are you actually on IPv6 Chris? I thought the penetration of it in 
consumer ISPs in the UK was virtually nil. Many ISPs are upgrading 
their networks to work with IPv6 but end users and their modems are 
almost entirely still on IPv4. I have not seen any comment on the BT 
forums about it, so I assume it is still 100% IPv4.

In any case, a local network based on IPv4 via NAT is likely to remain 
the default for a very long time, with the transition to IPv6 occuring 
in the router.

73 Dave G3YMC

On 20 Aug 2012 at 20:55, Chris G3SJJ wrote:

> Thought I would flesh this out a bit. Some confirmation would be
> helpful. I am setting up two laptops up for SSB FD. Have done it
> numerous times before but hit a brickwall this time.
> 
> As far as I can understand a computer assigns IP addresses for
> networking and internet access. The current protocol designated IPv4 is
> being replaced by IPv6. I *think* I understand that this uses the
> computer's Public IP Address as the local IP address. IPv6 is gradually
> being rolled out in the UK.
> 
> When you network computers you use the internal IP address, usually in
> the range 192. etc. That has always worked for me in the past. As far as
> I can determine you can't use IPv6 addresses to network, or at least you
> can't mix v4 and v6 which I am trying to do. N1MM doesn't like this and
> I suspect other logging s/w will react the same. One laptop runs W7 with
> IPv4 and v6, the other is XP with v4.
> 
> Any comments, corrections or info will be helpful.
> 
> 73 Chris G3SJJ
> 
> 


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