6to4 disabled by default on W7SP1

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 22:38:04 CEST 2011


On 2011-08-26 02:00, Ron Broersma wrote:
> This is not true.  There are no changes to default behavior in W7 SP1.  
> 
> I just verified this with an authority at Microsoft.

Haven't they read RFC 6343 then? I'm upset ;-)

Seriously - afaik this could be done by a vendor in a startup script
of some kind, or by an IT department that distributes system images
to users.

 netsh interface ipv6 6to4 set state state=disabled

       Brian

> 
> --Ron
> 
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 
>> Seems 6to4 is now disabled by default on new installations of W7SP1.  Hats
>> off to Microsoft for committing this important change.
>>
>> Nick
> 


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