IPv6 is mostly to improve address range possibilities and some other infrastructure improvements. Its not going to change the speed of your internet or anything you demented porcupine.
most modern hardware and OS's support IPv6 atleast on your LAN (mine does) but your ISP must supply you with an external IPv6 address or some connectivity. There's only a few ISPs which do this (although most are using Ipv6 for their internal networks).
Looks like your ISP has connected you to Ipv6 internet via an automatic proxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4). You can use other broker or proxy services if you set them up manually.
More importantly though, someone needs to add Ipv6 to ET!!
Its been done with ioq3 engine so Xreal-ET should have it
Most providers dont use 'real' ipv6 yet but NAT444, some things don't work like torrents and skype.
The best thing about ipv6, you don't need NAT anymore at home, and you don't need to port forward anymore. And you can give every device in your home a separate ipv6 address
For example you run a server, you can just get it open to the internet without any forwarding or NAT blocking it. This also means people need to be more careful with there security. I know my ISP will update firmware in there modem to block everything standard in there firewall, so that customers that don't know anything about security don't get into problems.
As for the transfer from ipv4 to ipv6: Its all about tunneling and DUAL stack hosts. Google 6to4 tunneling and IPv6 to IPv4 configured tunneling, aswell as Dual -IP IPv6/IPv4 and Dual-Stack IPv6/IPv4.
How it works: IPv6 "islands" that encapsulate their IPv6 packages into an IPv4 packet, as if it were higher protocol data. The normal IPv4 network will send it to another IPv6 island, depending on which tunneling u use it works a bit different but they all work. The receiver just decapsulates the IPv4 msg and retreives the IPv6 data.
The difference: IPv4 adresses like w.x.y.z can still be used in IPv6 by using IPv4 mapped adresses like ::FFFF:w.x.y.z or just by retreiving an IPv6 network adress from the hardware MAC adress (since thats unique the IPv6 adress from it will be unique aswell).
Except for that it stays the same like it is now, it just changed adresses and some aspects to make sure we dont run out of IP adresses and to make routing more efficient
hf
If you're trying to use IPv6 alrdy: only 2 infrastructures (6ren and 6bone) are currently routing IPv6 so a lot of stuff wont work properly if you activate it. As I said, if u wanna use it now then your environment will need tunnels to communicate with the rest of the world
IPv4 is old IPv6 is new, and i have to stay cool you know.
But talk to your ISP, they'll sort your shizzlings out
2^32=4 294 967 296
2^128=3.40282367 × 10^38
Looks like your ISP has connected you to Ipv6 internet via an automatic proxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4). You can use other broker or proxy services if you set them up manually.
More importantly though, someone needs to add Ipv6 to ET!!
Its been done with ioq3 engine so Xreal-ET should have it
The best thing about ipv6, you don't need NAT anymore at home, and you don't need to port forward anymore. And you can give every device in your home a separate ipv6 address
For example you run a server, you can just get it open to the internet without any forwarding or NAT blocking it. This also means people need to be more careful with there security. I know my ISP will update firmware in there modem to block everything standard in there firewall, so that customers that don't know anything about security don't get into problems.
How it works: IPv6 "islands" that encapsulate their IPv6 packages into an IPv4 packet, as if it were higher protocol data. The normal IPv4 network will send it to another IPv6 island, depending on which tunneling u use it works a bit different but they all work. The receiver just decapsulates the IPv4 msg and retreives the IPv6 data.
The difference: IPv4 adresses like w.x.y.z can still be used in IPv6 by using IPv4 mapped adresses like ::FFFF:w.x.y.z or just by retreiving an IPv6 network adress from the hardware MAC adress (since thats unique the IPv6 adress from it will be unique aswell).
Except for that it stays the same like it is now, it just changed adresses and some aspects to make sure we dont run out of IP adresses and to make routing more efficient
hf
If you're trying to use IPv6 alrdy: only 2 infrastructures (6ren and 6bone) are currently routing IPv6 so a lot of stuff wont work properly if you activate it. As I said, if u wanna use it now then your environment will need tunnels to communicate with the rest of the world