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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. 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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  4. 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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    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;