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Hello Rick,

On Sunday September 12 2021 08:24, you wrote to me:

 RS> Thank you... I have watched some videos and read some online journals
 RS> and I am interested enough to pursue this.  I do have just a basic
 RS> question, will I have ipv4 and ipv6 concurrently?  Or do I have to
 RS> abandon ipv4 to utilize ipv6? That is the only thing I cant seem to
 RS> find specifics on...

Most ISPs still offer a so called "Full Dual Stack" connection. That means you
will still be able to use IPv4 as you do now and use IPv6 in addition to that.
The OS and the application will figure out for themselves what protocol to
use. If the other side also supports IPv6, IPv6 will tried first by default.

As Ricsi already mentioned some ISPs that are short of IPv4 addresses issue so
called DS-Lite. But I do not think that will apply to you. European and Asian
ISPs sometimes use DS-Lite, but in the US ISP's still have enough IPv4. I am
not aware of US ISPs going DS-Lite yet.

So for the moment assume that you will have Full Dual Stack en use both IPv4
and IPv6 for both incoming and outgoing connections.


Cheers, Michiel

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