"Excellent. What you just learned in this exercise will you help you out a great deal when it comes time to move a production network onto IPv6: The real challenge isn't the "plumbing" (networking). The real challenge lies in…"

"I'd start, again, at the "almost silly" end of the spectrum. Apache needs to be compiled with IPv6 support. XAMPP supports IPv6 now, which means it's a simple way to test that your basic networking is okay. Once you have that…"

"I can ping your server, that's about the extent of it. Silly question - have you tried local lookups against it via IPv6? Just to check that it bound itself to v6 correctly. Which version of Windows Server is this? Or are you running a bind on…"

"The built-in firewall in Win7 handles ipv6 without issue. On a network level, the Juniper SSG series works well today, and the SRX series will gain v6 firewalling with the mid-May release."

"IPSEC encryption is optional. You can experience this yourself today: Set up ipv6 at home, use a DNS server that is "Google-sanctioned", and experience google and youtube via ipv6. The experience, by the way, is the same as over ipv4, no…"