IPv6 News

We recently announced that Windows Vista received its IPv6 Ready logo from the IPv6 Consortium and University of New Hampshire - InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL). Today we are proud to announce that Windows Server 2008 has received its Phase 2 logo on Jan…(read more)

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Joe Davies, a.k.a. “The Cable Guy”, has completed the update to his excellent “Understanding IPv6″ book! I highly recommend this book - it will help you understand IPv6 in general as well as some Microsoft-specific information. Good stuff! Understanding…(read more)

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I am pleased to present Christian Huitema as a "guest blogger" today. Thanks for contributing, Christian! -Sean   Hi, I am Christian Huitema, Distinguished Engineer in Windows, and the author of the Teredo protocol specification RFC 4380…(read more)

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On October 25, 2007, Windows Vista earned the IPv6 Forum’s IPv6 Ready Phase 2 Logo from the IPv6 Consortium and University of New Hampshire - InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL).  Vista earned its Phase 1 Logo, which focuses on interoperability…(read more)

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Hola. Bonjour. Speaking a second language can be very helpful – it allows you to communicate in situations where you otherwise wouldn’t be able to. Some skilled linguists are fluent in six or seven languages, really maximizing their communication…(read more)

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Exchange 2007 and IPv6 compliance; this is a topic that comes up quite often.  People want to know what they need to install to make this work. In order to get IPv6 running on Exchange Server 2007, you will need to meet a few requirements. …(read more)

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I have been asked a lot recently if Vista works okay with IPv6. Apparently some people are hearing that Vista doesn’t implement IPv6 correctly and it breaks your network, or something to that effect. The short answer is: YES! Everything in Vista works…(read more)

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Let’s tackle our second myth. There is a factoid on the Internet that some American universities (normally listed as either Stanford or MIT) have more IP addresses than the entire country of China. This has been repeated in the mainstream press so often…(read more)

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One of the comments that I hear a lot (and I am sure to receive on this site) is “But I don’t need IPv6 for that! I can do that in IPv4!” It is true that a lot of what we can do in v6 we can do in v4 as well. That’s because v6 is based on v4 and needs…(read more)

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As a host moves around, it may be assigned different IP addresses based on its location. When this happens, the host acquires a new IP address and continues to operate, but the previous TCP connections are invalid and torn down. Normally this process…(read more)

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