Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

This was something I found earlier in the week, but haven’t had a chance to blog about it yet.  I also haven’t tried it yet as I am currently dogfooding Vista in the last push to find bugs on all but my Server machines.
Microsoft has recently posted the update for PNRP (Peer Name Resolution Protocol) [...]

For those of you who are playing with the increased IPV6 support in Windows Vista, here are a few dynamic DNS services that can put a friendly named to your IPV6 address (mainly for those using a Teredo tunnel as people using a 6to4 connection normally are NOT behind a NAT gateway):
http://freedns.afraid.org/ (I haven’t [...]

The October CTP build of Windows Vista has been released today.
This build has most of the new networking improvements checked in (but not all, if I remember correctly from the summit). So be sure to play around with the new IPV6 and IPSec support. I am still in the process of [...]

Continuing on my series posting from the network portion of the MVP Summit (sorry for the delay in posting but I am still in Seattle - this time on vacation - and I have been in non-stop activities), I will post some about the improvements in IPV6 included in Windows Vista.
A lot of the “goodies” [...]

Another IPV6 Article - this one related to Teredo (Teredo is an IPv6 transition technology that provides address assignment and host-to-host automatic tunneling for unicast IPv6 connectivity when IPv6/IPv4 hosts are located behind one or multiple IPv4 network address translators (NATs). To traverse IPv4 NATs, IPv6 packets are sent as IPv4-based User Datagram Protocol (UDP) [...]

I have just been notified about an upcoming MS Chat about IPV6:
Find out how IPv6 will revolutionize networking in general and your organization in particular. Discuss how you can harness the power of this cutting-edge technology, as implemented in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1. Get ahead of [...]

For the IPV6 users out there (for now, mostly academic/research institutions and those in Asian locations where the IPV4 space is dwindling rapidly), here is an article that describes how to use Remote Desktop on an IPV6 network. By default, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server are ready to use IPV6 (although the interface is [...]