We have an IPv6 enabled router, with two PC's connected to it. Both of them are using IPv6 and connect to each other quite happily using the default link-local address, but we can't get them to connect to the internet, so if anyone has any tips that would be great, for now I can show you how to turn it on and get it working so that you can comminucate with other PC's on IPv6 across a workgroup.
Configuring IPv6 in Windows 7 isn't really that different to configuring IPv4, in the way that it's done. Obviously because the addresses are long and random it's easier to leave the address to be automatically assigned.
To configure your PC to use IPv6 you need to open up the network and sharing centre. There are two ways you can do this. You can go through the start menu and control panel.
Or you can right click on the little computer icon next to the clock and open the network and sharing centre that way.
Once you have the network and sharing centre open you need to select Change Adapter settings in the sidebar
You then need to right-click on the network adapter you would like to enable IPv6 for. If you only have one network adapter in your PC there will only be one option here.
In Windows 7 both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled by default.
To disable IPv4 you need to untick the box, leaving the IPv6 box ticked, so that only IPv6 is enabled.
Now select IPv6 protocol and click on properties.
You can set the PC to get it's IPv6 addresses automatically. This is easier than trying to generate your own IPv6 address.
When you have done this you can open a command prompt and type in ipconfig. As you can see, the PC now has an IPv6 address, but as we do not have an IPv6 gateway set up here it's not finding the gateway and therefore there is no internet connection, but we can still communicate with other IPv6 computers over the network.
I'm fairly sure once I've got the hang of this I'll come back and do a full walk through, but for now I get to tick another box off my college module list ;)
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