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Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6

Posted by kdawson on from the pioneers-with-arrows dept.

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.'"

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  1. Who is surprised? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyone? Raise your hand...

    Seriously, anyone using Vista in a vital machine before SP2 is out needs their head examnined!

  2. don't the idiots at MS test anything? by mr_death · · Score: 0, Troll

    It can't get any more basic than this -- send a file to a printer. What genius at MS decided not to test this, or decided that the problem isn't a critical bug? Guess it's more important to say "we have a new ip stack!" for marketing purposes, regardless of how well it works.

    If Mom can't get IPv6 to work in Vista, what do you think the real adoption rate of IPv6 will be? MS needs to put their collective heads out of their asses and fix this right bloody now.

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  3. Re:Very funny, but... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is just paving the way for the release of MS-IP. "See, IPv6 doesn't work. But hey, we have a solution that does work(tm)!"

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  4. Re:Pretty sad considering... by KingMotley · · Score: 1, Troll

    There is no proven (and open) IPv6 stack. The one in linux has had numerous bugs reported so far.