Hello,
I came across this unanswered post at System7 Today recently, and would like to know, if somebody here can give a competent answer.
I am interested in the topic too, as I usually have an internet connection with SS OS7.6.
And I do feel there is trouble ahead by January 2012.

I'm no IP expert, but this topic is interesting.

But I was thinking.... wouldn't this primarily affect only those who hosting websites for a fee, and not the average consumer who just surfs the web? After all, one would think that their ISP already loans them (assigns them) a "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" formed IP address whenever their modem (or whatever connection device they use) does its authentication, handshake, and whatnot.... right?

And since you mentioned System 7.6.1 and older (7.5.5, 7.5.3, 7.5.2, 7.5.1, etc.), wouldn't that also imply that even Windows OSes from the same era would also have the same concern regarding IPv6?

Not to mention people who have network devices, routers, switches, etc. that only support IPv4.... and worse yet, the manufacturer has either gone defunct or just has no plans to go through the trouble of going back and then write some firmware patches for all those older devices... yikes.

Hi,

Some interesting reading is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4
http://www.rfc-editor.org/internet-draf ... nce-06.txt

What solution(s) will be provided by your ISP to you as end users is unclear.
And how that will affect our local machines is also not clear yet.

From the point of view of BII and SS, it depends on what services you can provide locally to them. Both don't really show themselves to the outside world directly.
If you can have a local ipv4 address (and I think that will be possible for a long time), or run some local ip4 to ip6 translation tool, there doesn't have to be a problem.

Best,
Cat_7

Thanks Cat7,
I don't even understand half of the V4 / V6 business, but there seem to be enough solutions available.
Hopefully our routers or gateways will handle all that unnoticeable to users who only want to use the piviate IPv4 area.