IPv6 day - Yahoo

was just reading about Yahoo turning up IPv6 for testing,
and having a day - June 8 -

http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...ahoo-ipv6.html

To make a IPv6 connection,
doesn't every node, router, stack
have to be IPv6 or how does it work with IPv4 ??
Can it go....

PC with v6 -> v4 -> v4 -> v4 -> Yahoo with v6 ?

Is there any ISP that is handing out IPv6 addresses ?
and what about all the hardware ??

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:16:29 -0600, "ps56k"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>was just reading about Yahoo turning up IPv6 for testing,
>and having a day - June 8 -
>
>http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...ahoo-ipv6.html
>
>To make a IPv6 connection,
>doesn't every node, router, stack
>have to be IPv6 or how does it work with IPv4 ??
>Can it go....
>
>PC with v6 -> v4 -> v4 -> v4 -> Yahoo with v6 ?

Simplified, the IPv6 packets would need to be encapsulated into IPv4
packets before being able to traverse the IPv4 network. I doubt if the
required gateways are in place to make it happen end to end, but I
don't know.

testing site -

http://test-ipv6.com/

"ps56k" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ihv86v$6fn$(E-Mail Removed)...
> was just reading about Yahoo turning up IPv6 for testing,
> and having a day - June 8 -
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...ahoo-ipv6.html
>
> To make a IPv6 connection,
> doesn't every node, router, stack
> have to be IPv6 or how does it work with IPv4 ??
> Can it go....
>
> PC with v6 -> v4 -> v4 -> v4 -> Yahoo with v6 ?
>
> Is there any ISP that is handing out IPv6 addresses ?
> and what about all the hardware ??
>
> --

Here's a link describing a How To for getting IPv6 connected.

As you would expect,
you need a proxy, gateway, tunnel, etc
to transport your IPv6 across the v4 world
until it dumps off into the v6 world.

http://ipv6blog.net/how-to-connect-to-the-ipv6-network/