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Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed

Posted by kdawson on from the whatever-it-takes dept.

Esther Schindler writes "According to this article at IT Expert Voice, Windows 7 and IPv6: Useful at Last?, we've had so many predictions that this will be 'the year of IPv6' that most of us have stopped listening. But the network protocol may have new life breathed into it because IPv6 is a requirement for DirectAccess. DirectAccess, a feature in Windows 7, makes remote access a lot easier — and it doesn't require a VPN. (Lisa Vaas interviews security experts and network admins to find out what they think of that idea.) The two articles examine the advantages and disadvantages of DirectAccess, with particular attention to the possibility that Microsoft's sponsorship may give IPv6 the deployment push it has lacked."

2 of 283 comments (clear)

  1. IPv6 addresses are overly complex by sopssa · · Score: 0, Troll

    While it will be useful, I don't think widespread usage of IPv6 will start before we run out of IPv4 addresses.

    I rather type in 49.1.4.22 than 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334

  2. Why? by pdangel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who the hell needs 13 Gazillion addresses on their LAN? On the internet sure, ok....who the fuck going to connect a Windows box to the internet without NAT/Firewall?

    What ever, just another service I have to stop/remove on a PC.