Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6

netbuzz writes in to note that some early adopters of Microsoft Vista are reporting problems with Vista's implementation of IPv6. An example:"'We are seeing a number of applications that are IP-based that do not like the addressing scheme of IPv6,' says one user. 'We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted. We're seeing this with Window's Vista machines. When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal.'"

Comments

Simple solution.

[jshriverWVU]

Disable IPV6. It's my understanding, a principle way to better secure any network is to disable as many things as possible. If you're not using it, remove it.

Re:Simple solution.

[Bert64]

It is, not only disable but also remove. On unix this is easy, because everything typically comes as seperate packages which are easily uninstalled.
Windows however, makes it difficult if not impossible to remove many things which are often not required at all.

Re: open source solutions

[CodeShark]

Thing is, the whole IPv6 standard is IMHO fairly well done. But implementation hiding details is what MS does best.

While I agree wholeheartedly with the hope that OSS solutions would gain strength from the IPv6 problems, for much of the business world, M$ is the dominant force -- so like you said -- a bad implementation is a body blow to IPv6's adoption. Too bad Redmond will never learn the Open Source lesson that more eyes find more problems in the early adoption v.9 releases, instead of after-market bad press. Nor will they likely learn that trying to corrupt or co-opt a standard is less profitable in the long run than taking the time to open up the code and more likely insure engineering success right off the bat