IPv6 News and Articles

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Setting up and managing IPv6 on Windows Server 2016

Change of Address free

Windows Server 2016 automatically prefers IPv6 addresses, if available, but the manual configuration steps differ from IPv4 and necessitate new tools. Here's how to approach IPv6 in your daily admin work.
IPv6 , IT , Server , Windows
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Figure 1: The most important tool in IPRoute2 is ip.

IPRoute2

Traditional administration command-line tools such as ifconfig, route, and arp are almost as old as TCP/IP itself. We provide an overview of how the IPRoute2 toolkit now unifies the management of kernel network components.

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Freedom to Travel

IPv6 includes Mobile IPv6, a new standard for communication with mobile devices, which ensures permanent accessibility regardless of your current location. In this article, we provide an overview of Mobile IPv6 functionality.

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Figure 1: On the current crop of operating systems, IPv6 is enabled along with IPv4 on the LAN.

Securing IPv6

IPv6 is establishing itself in everyday IT life, and all modern operating systems from Windows, through Mac OS X, to Linux have it on board; but if you let IPv6 introduce itself into your environment, you could be in for some unpleasant surprises.

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Figure 1: Create DNS reverse entries for your IPv6 addresses at an early stage – the example shows the web hoster Strato, whose customers can create DNS entries themselves or delegate the zone on their own name server.

Web and Mail Servers with IPv6

If you run a web server and a mail server and anticipate that users from Asia will access your system, it’s time to get it ready for IPv6.

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Router distribution Vyatta is now certified for IPv6

26.08.2010

The new version 6.1 of the router distribution Vyatta not only offers more security, but also IPv6 support.

IPv6 , Routing
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