On 2/26/11 10:56 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > >> On 2/26/11 9:27 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >>> >>>> On 2/26/11 9:05 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >>>>>> With copies out to developers we now have confirmation that Apple >>>>>> still hasn't included DHCPv6 in the next release of OS X. >>>>> >>>>> what is it about ipv6 which attracts religious nuts? >>>> >>>> you sure it's not macos (says joel from a v6 enabled mac). >>> >>> On a more serious note, I can on my Ubuntu machine just "apt-get install >>> wide-dhcpv6-client" and I get dhcpv6, it'll properly put stuff in >>> resolv.conf for dns-over-ipv6 transport, even though the connection >>> manager knows nothing about it, at least dual stack works properly. >>> >>> Can one do the equivalent easy addition to OSX? >> >> You can, the actual integration issue is that network mangler (on >> ubuntu/fedora etal) and the osX airport connection manager will give up >> on a subnet on which they can't obtain an ipv4 address in prefernce to >> one where they can... this can also be worked around but it makes >> v6-only operation (Assuming that were desired, or even a good idea at >> this point) something that the majority of the users wouldn't be able to >> achive without the default behavior changing. > > I'm not that interested in v6 only, I'm after requiring DHCPv6 and > disallowing SLAAC, which clients can use IPv6 then? > > List afaik: > > Can: > Windows Vista/Win7 (default) > Linux (with non-default software) > *BSD (with non-default software) > > Probably: > > OSX (with non-default software) > > Can't: > > Windows XP
also can't query an ipv6 nameserver, meaning it has to obtain one via ipv4. > Don't know: > > Symbian has it > Android does not have it per the currently open ticket/rfe. > Apple iOS >
