Recently I moved to Windows 7 and let Windows XP behind.

Yeah… I know. Using Windows on your desktop is kind of lame… Unfortunately I always was a geek so I never used Linux-friendly distributions. I always was the guy that was installing everything by hand. Compiling, optimizing, patching kernel and others taken to the extreme. After you grow and work a while you reach the point when you have so many things to do that in the final you can not afford anymore one week of compiling and customizing.  So… you chose the time effective solution.

And recently I upgraded my distribution to Windows 7. :-)

First I was happy to find that in Windows 7 you don’t need to install, configure from console or making scripts to change your IPv6. Niceee! So, I set my IPv6, check the connection, everything was working well!

In years I developed some habits. And one of them is to see who logged in recently on the server and who is online and from where. So when I logged in on the first server I was surprised to see username “serghei”(mine) logged in from a stateless obtained IPv6. Um… not fine. I have access only from one IP on lot of servers. And when I have a free access point in my home and some free access points at work(all offering stateless IPv6) you must use your own IP!

So, I went to the IPv6 configuration options and searched to disable the stateless auto configuration.  Unfortunately found no option there. Well… I thought I must go again as in Windows XP to the console and stop the service. Disappointing… but in the final no biggie …two more minutes of work. To make the story shorter after hours and hours of searching and lot of moments when I hated the Microsoft tech support page I decided to ask some experts. Well… I asked but… I’m still waiting for an answer with a solution. :-)

If you can help me I’ll be very grateful to you. :-)

Meanwhile I used to log in on the servers only using IPv4…
Kind of sad isn’t it ?

Cheers,
Sebastian

P.S. I also tried to at least convince Windows 7 to use my assigned IP and not the one stateless obtained but without success.