4Jun/090
IPV6
Sometimes you all you want to do is build a nice little demo environment FAST! The last thing you are waiting for is troubleshooting basic networking troubles. So one of the first things i did in my virtual machine was disabling the IPv6 protocol on my NIC.
At this point you think IPv6 is disabled... right ?
Well just ping localhost and see what happens:
Hmm a reply from ::1: that doesn't look very IPv4 to me so how do we fix this: Browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip6\Parameters\
Create a DWORD key
Name: DisabledComponents
Value: ff (hex)
Reboot the machine and you are happy again 