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IPv6 is the next generation protocol for Internet networking. IPv6 expands on the current Internet Protocol standard known as IPv4. Compared to IPv4, IPv6 offers better addressing, security and other features to support large worldwide networks.

IPv6 is the next generation protocol for Internet networking. IPv6 expands on the current Internet Protocol standard known as IPv4. Compared to IPv4, IPv6 offers better addressing, security and other features to support large worldwide networks.

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Why IPv6 showing on whatismyip.com?

I use Tor Browser on Whonix. Why I see IPv6 (something like 3221:23f9:c:67h:0:0:0:3) on whatismyip.com? Is that website can see my MAC Address?
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Do household IPv6 addresses introduce vulnerabilities?

Apparently, for half a year already at least, my ISP has assigned me IPv6 addresses. I discovered this accidentally, while editing Wikipedia. So it seems my ISP started to support IPv6 addresses and decided it was a good time to give them out to…
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IPv6 and NAT firewall effect

It seems that people still argue on whether to use NAT with IPv6 for its side-role as a firewall hiding inner network from the outside (providing user anonymity and security as well). I am wondering though if we could not use an actual firewall for…
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Enabling firewall for the IPv6 tunnel on Windows 2008 64-bit

I am currently on a IPv4 network. The IPv4 network is accessed by a router, which gives my machines IPv4 addresses via NAT. On one of the machines, a Windows 2008 64-bit machine, I have set up a IPv6 tunnel. This allows me to access IPv6 sites by…
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How to retrieve an IPV6 knowing the IPV4?

I'm using nmap to scan a training lab environment, and I would like to check if a remote machine has an IPV6 address. I only know the IPV4 of the machine. And I know that scanning through IPV6 would give me much informations about the target, but I…
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Impairment of security by introduction of ipv6

If you get a public IPv6 on your device, and someone gets hold of your momentary IPv6 (which changes every 24h by the privacy extensions), a possible attacker could start a lot of automated tools on your device directly to try to hack it. So it…
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Why doesn't my IP change on manual router turn off/on?

Basically the title. I remember that when still having IPv4 addresses, my IP changed after the router turn off/on. This doesn't seem to be the case with IPv6. Since there are almost 10^40 addresses when using IPv6, does IP rotation not occur anymore…
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Hiding rough whereabouts of a machine with IPv6, without using a proxy

Since I configured my smartphone Access Point Name (APN) of the type APN protocol from including the value IPv4 to including the value IPv4/IPv6, generally all different addresses I got after restarting my smartphone about 10 times, started with:…
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Are IPv4 more intuitively hard to track than IPv6?

I understand that it is easier for a human to intuitively figure out the alleged whereabouts of a machine if that machin's IP address is IPv6, rather than if its IPv4: For example, since I configured my smartphone Access Point Name (APN) of the type…
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Can an ip be forced to connect? If so, how is it done, and how can I prevent it?

Can an IP be forced to receive data from another IP (specifically IPv6 for both)? If so how does this work, and how can I prevent this from happening to me? Does that have any way to be broken? If so how can it be improved?
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