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Blog Post: Follow-up my IPv6 post

John Losey

As a follow-up to my earlier post about leaving IPv6 enabled in the OS and bound to the NICs, I wanted to share some additional resources from my IE bookmarks: Arguments against disabling IPv6 http://blogs.technet.com/b/netro/archive/2010/11/24/arguments-against-disabling-ipv6.aspx How will it affect...

on 1 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Why you should leave IPv6 alone

John Losey

A common paradigm in the technology field is, “If you’re not using it, uninstall or disable it.” While that can be an excellent way to reduce the surface area of a system by removing components that you don’t need and may never use, there are going to be times when that paradigm doesn’t turn...

on 2 Feb 2011
Blog Post: What is 2002:836b:0F1E::836b:0F1E and why am I seeing it?

John Losey

(NOTE: IP Addresses changed to protect the innocent) I was onsite with a customer recently who asked me a question: “What is 2002:836b:0F1E::836b:0F1E and why am I seeing it?” I explained that this is a 6to4 address and is automatically assigned to the client because they use a globally routable IPv4...

on 24 Feb 2012