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Originally Posted by Hom3r
My Asus RT-N66U supports IPv6.
Now I guess it act as a bridge between VM IPv6 service when launch and the IPv4 home network.
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To clarify what Igni is saying, IPv6 and IPv4 operate entirely alongside each other. How each works individually is different (so things you're used to such as DHCP are not the same) but basically when Virgin launches IPv6, your Asus should start dishing out IPv6 addresses to anything that's requesting one. Any PC running Vista or above, for example.
IPv6 is interesting because it's all based on the idea that things have multiple addresses. Kind of like how your PC will be on both 192.168.0.x and 127.0.0.1 at the same time, with IPv6, you will have the link-local (equivalent to 127.0.0.1) address of ::1, you'll have a self-assigned address beginning with fe80 (i.e. fe80::aabb:ccdd:1234:5678), equivalent to a 169.x.x.x IP, then you might have a local IPv6 address if your router is advertising them, beginning with fd (i.e. fd2::aabb:ccdd:1234:5678), equivelant to a 192.x.x.x address, then you'll have the globally routable address that comes from Virgin (probably beginning with a 2, i.e. 2a03::...). However, you'll have
all of these at the same time.
Any machine on your network looking to communicate with another machine (on your network or on the internet) will first try to use whatever IPv6 addresses it has, going from most private to most public. If none of those are routable, it'll then try IPv4.