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Re: Question on Ipv6 address


From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:33:55 +1100


In message <8E071111C7D8154CA69338DDF94ACF99E9F6958FF9 () ex02mail01 ad rit edu>, 
Mark Jeremy writes:
Justin,

Dial-up modem is just a layer 2 device with no IP address. Just think of =
it
as a converter, its sole function is to convert the telephone line to
something your PC can use, in this case, Ethernet. Both IPv4 and IPv6
operate on the layer 3 of the OSI model which is taken care of by the =
RAS.
So basically any dial-up modem support IPv6.

This doesn't however mean that the equipment connected to the dialup
modem supports IPv6.  ISP still need to check this part of the
picture.  Old PPP implementations may be IPv4 only.

Mark
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