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| Thread ID: 33643 | 2003-05-21 10:48:00 | lol MS at it again | tweak'e (174) | Press F1 |
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| 146342 | 2003-05-21 10:48:00 | Microsoft has released a knowledge base article (support.microsoft.com) in which the Redmond based company admits that their integrated firewall solution, which customers have inadvertently been encouraged to use, lacks the ability to block suspicious data traffic using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). This is a small but embarrasing statement by Microsoft, which has been working on IPv6 since 1998. Not only Windows XP is affected by the issue but the recently released Windows Server 2003 versions are as well. IP version 6 (IPv6) is a new version of the Internet Protocol, designed as the successor to IP version 4 (IPv4) which allows expanded addressing capabilities, header format simplification and improved support for extensions and options among a variety of other new features. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 146343 | 2003-05-22 10:00:00 | > lol MS at it again And your point is?? ]:) So what is this "Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and version 6 (IPv6)" anyway?? What is the significance of it? Can't find any explanations on Google. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 146344 | 2003-05-22 10:04:00 | > So what is this "Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and version 6 > (IPv6)" anyway?? What is the significance of it? Can't find any > explanations on Google. I'm waiting for an answer as well... I had a search in Google and nothing really came up about it. Anyway - pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 146345 | 2003-05-22 10:33:00 | IPv4 is the standard IP address system 168.123.456.789 as an example (4 groups of 0 - 255) IPv6 is the next progression 123.456.789.012.345 as an example (6 groups of 0 - 255) As you can see, the available combinations are MUCH greater in IPv6, so IP addresses should not be in short supply. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 146346 | 2003-05-22 10:35:00 | Oops. None of the above should go over 255. IPv4 example 255.255.255.254 IPv6 expample 255.255.255.255.255.254 |
godfather (25) | ||
| 146347 | 2003-05-22 10:38:00 | Most of todays internet uses IPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4), Just remove the v4 and it's IP, that's exactly what it's talking about. IPv4 was for it's time 20 years ago sufficient enough for internet/networking, but now recently IPv4 is struggling because we are running out of IPs, when you consider how many IPs are used for networking and non-routing that can't be used on the net, there's not enough IP's to go around if more and more people start connecting to the internet. There'll be a shortage of IPs. IPv6 is the next generation, it's going to fix the problems IPv4 have with limited numbers of IPv4 addresses, they say there's going to be more improvements but as far as I'm concerned it's just to counter the limited number of IP addresses we have using IPv4. | Kame (312) | ||
| 146348 | 2003-05-22 10:45:00 | IPv6 is going to be the new format for IP addresses. We're currently using IPv4 which is the number like 210.48.100.45 there is a certain limit as to how many IP addresses can exist at the moment. That number is 255^4 from memory. But a lot of these can't actually be used as they're reserved for certain reasons. There is a shortage of IP addresses at the moment. IPv6 is going to be have A LOT more IP addresses there will be enough of them to have 5 devices per square meter each with it's own IP. The IP will usually be referred to in hexadecimal format. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 146349 | 2003-05-22 11:01:00 | So at the end of the day DNS and Name Servers will all have to be upgraded to IPv6 right..? That could prove interesting. Anyway, what will happen to Internal IP Addys like 192.168 and 172.16?? as 192.168 can have 255 computers on each subnet right?? and therefore 65024 Computers across the entire range (or something like that). So then theoretically 192.168 will only need to be the only IP Addy reserved for internal networks due to the fact that it will be capable of having several million computers on the same network right?? CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 146350 | 2003-05-22 11:05:00 | Missed something on Google?! www.google.co.nz http://www.ipv6.org - though I got a "not found" error, silly computers. |
agent (30) | ||
| 146351 | 2003-05-22 11:08:00 | Basically what they will do is bring IPv6 in real slow, that we'd be using both IPv4 and IPv6, later on though they'd like to eliminate the use of IPv4, but this is definitely years away. IPv6 addresses do exist although I tried accessing them I couldn't get anything, maybe DNS needs updating? | Kame (312) | ||
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