[Wiltshire] Virgin Media IPv6?

ANTHONY HESSLER tony.hessler at virgin.net
Mon Jan 20 11:40:45 UTC 2014


Using BT Business and my router shows no IPV6 address yet that site shows a
value in the IPV6 address field.
Is it a valid entry?
Tony



On 20 January 2014 11:24, Robert Longbottom <RobertCL at iname.com> wrote:

> Hmm, interesting. I'm on BT broadband and have just tried it and it
> reports an IPv4 and IPv6 address.
>
> None of my kit does ipv6 so I'm not sure what that means!
>
> On 20 Jan 2014, at 11:10 AM, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
>
> > I came across this site yesterday
> >
> > http://whatsmyip.net/
> >
> > which correctly displays my IPv4 address i.e. it's the same address as
> > all the other sites show. BUT it also quotes an IPv6 address which
> > is ::ffff:5615:41eb.
> >
> > No other "what's my IP address" type site that I can find shows any IPv6
> > address, so could somebody else especially Virgin Media users please try
> > it out?
> >
> > I'm expecting it to just be BS but could they have quietly switched it
> > on?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wiltshire mailing list
> > Wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wiltshire
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wiltshire mailing list
> Wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wiltshire
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wiltshire/attachments/20140120/b8192c73/attachment.html>


More information about the Wiltshire mailing list