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Can IP v4 and IP v6 share a single physical Ethernet?

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Mar 15, 202616873 views
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I keep reading about the transition from IP v4 to IP v6, and the possible advantages and problems. One thing that keeps popping up is "dual-stack" networking, meaning (I believe) a host can speak both IPv4 and IPv6. I don't quite understand how this works, however. Can a host actually transmit usin…

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Ethernet is protocol agnostic. Devices connected to an Ethernet send packets containing data using IPv4, IPv6, IPX or some other protocol. It is up to the connected devices (your PC for instance) to make sense of the protocol. In terms of the networ…

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