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Old 05-09-2008
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Hi,
Of course YOU CAN set up a private IPv6 on LAN, i just did that 8 years ago at college!!! IPv6 address on each of your host may just be derivated/built with the IPv4 address... (not sure though its been long since ) Make sure to test your config with IPv6 aware application (ping6 etc ...)