MS TCP/IP ver 6?

[Aloke Prasad]

After I added a few components (like Fax, peer-to-peer) from the XP CD, I
see a new protocol "Microsoft TCP/IP version 6" associated with my LAN card.
The properties button for this protocol is grayed out.

Is this normal? Why is this protocol needed?

Did I need to add this XP component (peer-to-peer) to get MS networking? I
already had the "Client for MS Networking" and "F&P sharing" from before.
So, why this TCP/IP ver 6?

 

[neil]

tcp/ip ver 6 is the new ip addressing protocol that allows
quite a few more ip address's to be used around the world,
its probably not available yet which is why its greyed
out, but the manufacturer of your card might have given
you the ability to use it in the future, nice of them

basicly, for now forget about it, it wont effect your card
in anyway.

Neil

 

[Ron Lowe]

After I added a few components (like Fax, peer-to-peer) from the XP CD, I
see a new protocol "Microsoft TCP/IP version 6" associated with my LAN card.
The properties button for this protocol is grayed out.

Is this normal? Why is this protocol needed?

Did I need to add this XP component (peer-to-peer) to get MS networking? I
already had the "Client for MS Networking" and "F&P sharing" from before.
So, why this TCP/IP ver 6?

Peer to Peer is a component which was added , IIRC,
with the Advanced Networking Pack:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817778

You probably picked this up off windows update without realising.

The P2P platform is exclusivly IPv6, and so it installs the IPv6 protocol,
and the IPv6 firewall, along with a bunch of tunneling pseudo-interfaces.

The properties button is greyed out bucause there's no GUI written (yet?).
All configuration of the IPv6 stack is done from the command line:

netsh
interface
ipv6

You'll need to read a big book before any of the options make any sense.

Do you need it?
Probably not, at the moment.