Thomas Scholz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Microsoft IPv6 stack is pretty feature lacking. I works, but they still > haven't made IIS or any other program compatible with IPv6. Stack != software IIS is a _program_ and has nothing to do with the stack although it uses it's _API_ to communicate over IPv6... (I didn't see IIS on *BSD yet for example :) And just like all those *nix programs.... they'll have to be patched/updated to support IPv6... Apache 1.3.x doesn't support IPv6 natively either (unless you apply the patch from the nice KAME peoples :) Apache 2.x does... and so will IIS 7 or something in the future... well that's quite possible at least... IPv6 is still in a development fase... and soon all stacks (KAME, USAGI, MS, Solaris.... etc...) will all be ready for production. Some people (among me :) use it for production already though even the MS stack... and actually I don't have any problems with it whatsoever. That most windows applications are closed source and those people need to get paid for adding features and the fact that IPv6 isn't deployed everywhere (yet :) simply doesn't 'push' those programmers to implement IPv6 compatibility... even though MS have made it quite easy to do so... So windows programmers check out: http://www.microsoft.com/ipv6/ and especially http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/communications/ipv6/ip v6winsok.asp and go IPv6-enable those applications... If you want an example of a nice IPv6 ported application and how it fixes the IPv6 check: http://cvs.tartarus.org/putty/winnet.c?annotate=1.8 which shows the patch for PuTTY... Please note that when a host has both an IPv6 and a IPv4 addy and IPv6 is down you currently have to use the IPv4 address... I'll have to fix that one day... > And they have removed numricc URLs in XP, now you can only call AAAA > records. But if a AAAA record is found, it tries it before the A record. You mean that they removed numberic URL's in wininet.dll .... :) > XP's new stack has some enhancements over the one 2000 is using. They have > made it possible to view connection with netstat, and a few more > configuration options. > > But still, they are a long way from completing it. Depends on which part you look at.... the stack is only 'missing' things like mobility but most other stacks around don't have full support for that yet either. The software part is a kinda worse as I describe above... but that will come in the future... as businesses and thus the programmers get asked for IPv6 support by the people who buy their software... ... ah I am repeating myself :) Greets, Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
