Planning a secure migration to IPv6
Scott Hogg, author of IPv6 Security shares his 5 must-dos for IPv6 security, a favorite script, and a personal philosophy that favors hard work.
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You should begin planning your secure migration to IPv6 sooner rather than later, says Scott Hogg, author of IPv6 Security. Remember the tortoise and the hare story. You will regret not spending more time planning when you end up scrambling to implement it in a hurry. And besides, learning about IPv6 is exciting because it's new.
Advice for newbies: You can quickly check to see if your computer is running IPv6.
Microsoft: netsh interface ipv6 show address
Linux/BSD/Sun: ifconfig –a
If you see addresses like: fe80:1234::1234:abfe:5678 or 2002:1256:abcd::1256:abcd then you have IPv6 enabled on your computer and you didn’t even realize it.
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