IPV6 support was made available in Windows XP SP1, however, it is NOT turned
on by default.

The original support was done via the IPV6.EXE command.  This support has
been deprecated and should be handled via the netsh command.

To see if IPV6 is running on your machine:  netsh interface ipv6 show
interface  (or "ipv6 if" if you're pre WinXP SP1 with q817778).

A quick google for windows IPV6 should turn up lots of documentation like
this:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/ipvsix/1.0%20IPv6%20Information 

Regards,

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Denys Beauchemin
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 11:51 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] ipv6 Follies

Recently, I came across a situation that I believe may occur to others in
this audience.

I travel quite a bit and I always stay at hotels where either wired or
wireless Internet access is freely available.  My notebook came with Windows
XP SP2 installed.  It also has both wired and wireless ethernet
connectivity.  This notebook is about 15 months old and has logged many
flights and hotels stays both in Europe and North America.  It has seen
several dozen networks and has always connected flawlessly and enabled me to
surf the web, get my mail, talk on Skype and access the machines back at the
office or at home.

Before this notebook, I had another one that started life as a Windows
98 machine but was upgraded immediately to Windows 2000 and later Windows
XP, then SP1 and finally SP2.  Over the years, that notebook saw hundreds of
networks, and never had a problem.

With this preamble out of the way, last week when I checked in at the hotel
at my travel destination, I started getting some weird problems.  The
biggest manifestion of the problem was my inability to contact about 90% of
the sites that I visit, including the email servers to which I belong.  The
error was displayed as an HTTP PROXY error, Unable to access address
0.0.0.1.

After a while, I contacted the hotel's technical support and the tech said
they were seeing a lot of those errors and had me do the following command
in Windows:

ipv6 uninstall

Then Windows enjoined me to reboot.

When the system came back up, all Internet problems were gone; the requested
pages were served up at very high speed.

I have discussed this with other groups and I still don't completely buy the
resolution but since it works, I am satisfied.  My only question is "why
here and nowhere else?"

At any rate, I know some of the readers here travel with their notebooks and
I thought I would share this.

Denys.

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