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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. Useful by dimmu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's a pretty useful list for UNIX users, however I don't see any Windows program that actually is doing IPv6 (for example Putty). It would be nice to also have such a list as I personally see IPv6 Win32 applications as the real breaktrough for IPv6.

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  2. Only Unix derived systems? by Gavin+Rogers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's great to see that a list is being kept of the programs that are IPv6 capable... that run under Unix systems.

    Any such lists for programs that run under other IPv6 operating systems? Like Windows? (yes, it has IPv6 support!)

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

    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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      -- Cliff Albert
    2. 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;
  3. Looong IP-Numbers by Mas3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh Boy! don't Mix up your IP with you GPG-Sig :)

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  4. IPv6 useful? Not really. by garcia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    at this point in time IPv6 is not useful for anything other than reverse DNS for those people that aren't allowed to have reverse DNS (cable modem dynamic, etc).

    No one has ipv6 that doesn't have ipv4 servers, there are few (if any) residential networking hardware manu's that distribute IPv6 enabled devices (for good reason, ipv6 will eliminate the need for NAT).

    Win2k/XP is a PAIN IN THE ASS to setup for ipv6, I didn't even bother (I use it on the Linux side for reverse DNS on IRC) but the documentation available is near nothing for XP.

    Someday it might come around and be useful, as of now, no.

  5. Challenge to Slashdot by caluml · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Slashdot - put your money where your mouth is, and implement IPv6 here. Run 6 over 4 if you don't want to get native IPv6 connectivity.

    The same goes for all site owners here.

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    1. 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. 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 DMDx86 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      geez, as soon as I try to visit that website, I get return port scans from them. How nice (NOT)!

    2. 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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  7. NAT will never be eliminated! by SHEENmaster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At least not until ISPs stop being jackasses.

    My ISP used to offer all the addresses one could grab, so I just used my cable modem as a DHCP server for my lan like an idiot. The end result was that transfering a file from one computer to another went along at a slow crawl.

    Companies can charge outrageous fees for more addresses. Now that they've stuck me to one, it would cost $150 to get two of the things.

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  8. Where's the status of stack features? by dmeranda · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As a software programmer who has written IPv6 enabled applications what I'd really like to see is a similar report of the kernel support for IPv6 in addition to common applications, and for multiple operating systems.

    For instance I took advantage of the superior multicasting capability of IPv6, but when porting to different Unixes I found varying level of support. Some just didn't do it, while others were missing some important APIs which made it easier. And some just have messed up C header files rather than faulting the kernel. IPv6 is supposed to have a whole new set of APIs which allow your application to do things like enumerate the various network adapters (important to know when multicasting). Name resolution is also done differently, and with more sane APIs.

    The IETF IPv6 Working Group has been busy developing a lot of standards, and for the developer the two most important are RFC2553 for the basic sockets API, and RFC3542 for advanced sockets API. But many Unix vendors aren't up to the latest standard and still implement the older RFC's 2133 and 2292 respectively.

    Oh, and on the applications side, many network administrative tools are missing from their list. What about netfilter (aka, iptables and iptables6), or tcpdump, nc, ping/ping6, or X Window? Also what about language support for those languages which have "super" libraries. Python's support for IPv6 is getting pretty strong, but I've found Java's support to be superficial (it only exposes say 10% of IPv6 functionality). Not to complain too much though, this as list is the most complete I've seen so far.

  9. Re:IPv6 is dead, and I can prove it by iiioxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Matrix reloaded. When Trinity typed:
    ssh 10.0.0.2
    I realised that IPv6 is doomed.

    What's more, she did ssh -l root 10.0.0.2 and used *password* authentication. "The Architect" doesn't know shit about security. Allowing root access and not using public key authentication?? It's no wonder the Matrix keeps getting hacked. Forget about Agents, let's install a Kerberos realm and implement IPSec before "The Boss" fires "The Architect", "The Oracle" (btw, is she the DBA?), and the rest of the IT staff ("The Helpdesk")...