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Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages

Posted by michael on from the RSN dept.

Mauro Tortonesi writes "The Deep Space 6 initiative publishes the first of the new IPv6 Status Pages: Current Status of IPv6 Support for Networking Applications. The IPv6 Status Pages are a survey of the current status of IPv6 support for the Linux networking stack, system libraries and networking applications. At the moment there is only one page concerning the IPv6 support of Linux networking applications, but we are planning to publish more pages soon and to extend our target to other important UNIX-derived OSes (e.g. *BSD) too."

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  1. Re:Only Unix derived systems? by dimmu · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mac OS X has also IPv6 support, but however it's UNIX derived. I'm not sure about older Mac OS versions but I think they lack IPv6 support.

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  2. putty by Gavin+Rogers · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is an IPv6 capable putty client available at unfix.org.

    It works well but it doesn't seem to like connecting to '4 hosts. (yet...) I renamed the IPv6 version to putty6.exe to get around that problem :-)

    1. Re:putty by fuzzel · · Score: 3, Informative

      Psst... that's my oops;

      If you have a host which only has a A record it will still try to connect to it as being an IPv6 address. You can avoid this problem by selecting the IPv4 protocol from the "Connection" tab in the Options/Settings menu.

      Then it does work. As I've been pre-occupied by some better thing in live, which unfortunatly suddenly ended, I didn't have any time to fix it but expect a fixed version this month.

      I'll quite prolly get forced to fix it at Megabit (July 21st-27th, Ede in .nl) by a crowd of rabit IPv6 sheep, so one can actually hold it's breath until it gets fixed.

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  3. Here are some links that might be useful. by CowBovNeal · · Score: 2, Informative
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  4. Re:IPv6 useful? Not really. by caluml · · Score: 2, Informative
    Using IPv6 in Linux will be as easy as "modprobe ipv6" in almost any modern distro. If you're using a distro where the kernel package doesn't have IPv6 compiled in already, or as a module, then you should pick another one!

    Here are some very simple notes that I scratched about getting Redhat 8 working with IPv6 over IPv4. It's really that simple.

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  5. Re:Challenge to Slashdot by SeanTobin · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, you put YOUR money where your mouth is. Use ipv4 over ipv6 for your own browsing.

    http://ipv6gate.sixxs.net/
    Direct ipv6 link to /. http://www.slashdot.org.sixxs.org

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  6. Re:Winsock by dimmu · · Score: 2, Informative

    That would not be entirely true. Internet Explorer for example won't work this way. It also needs an update of the inetinfo.dll to work correctly. And if I remember correctly (this was years ago) the structures for WinSock do specific length things concerning IP addresses. The Windows 2000 IPv6 Beta patch does not only patch the winsock libraries but also all sorts of programs including inetinfo.dll.

    The Trumpet Winsock IPv6 implementation (for 9x) does some kind of proxying for IPv6 which enables almost all native v4 apps to function with v6 as the resolver library automatically does the proxying towards an internal v4 address that gets translated to v6.

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  7. Re:Apache 1.3 & Opera by Varitek · · Score: 2, Informative

    A new Opera Linux alpha^Wtechnology preview came out this week, with new IPv6 support as one of the changelog entries

  8. Re:Only Unix derived systems? by Phroggy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Any other mainstream OSes have IPv6 support? (MacOS?)

    Mac OS X currently has IPv6 support un the underlying OS (Darwin), but there's no GUI front-end for it. That should be coming in 10.3 this September. I don't expect to see support for classic Mac OS. Actually I'd say that'd be about as likely as support for IPv6 in Windows 95/98/ME: might be possible with third-party hacks, but Microsoft won't do it.

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  9. Re:Winsock by CoolVibe · · Score: 2, Informative
    There's another niggle.

    Since the Winsock emulates the BSD calling interface (with some WSA_* handwaving in advance), the problem is apps using ipv4-only functions like gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr and using PF_INET. The solution is having the apps use getaddrinfo and PF_UNSPEC and let the resolver figure out itself what is best.

    Using the addrinfo structures to hold resolver data breeds apps that can do both ipv4 _and_ ipv6. As far as I know, winsock groks the addrinfo stuff. People just need to use it.

  10. Re:IPv6 useful? Not really. by fuzzel · · Score: 2, Informative

    FAQ contains all the info for:
    6Wind (SixOS)
    Cisco (IOS)
    FreeBSD
    Juniper (JunOS)
    Linux - Debian
    Linux - New - using iproute2
    Linux - Old
    NetBSD
    OpenBSD
    Solaris
    Windows 98 / NT4 / 2000 / XP / .Net

    As for linux, you should have taken a look in the everlasting Peter Bieringer doc at The Linux Doc Project.

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  11. Debian packages with IPv6 support: by molo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Debian is assessing *ALL* of its packages for IPv6 support. This is a huge task.

    See this page for details:

    http://debian.fabbione.net/stat/

    If you want to go right to the package status/statistics, go here:

    http://debdev.fabbione.net/cgi-bin/getstats

    -molo

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