On 16/07/2012, at 5:44 PM, Tony Langdon wrote:
At 11:41 AM 7/16/2012, Brian May wrote:
Lots of people still use Windows XP, which doesn't have built in IPv6 support. I believe there is an add-on that provides IPv6 support, however this was the first attempt Microsoft made, and as a result not recommended for serious use. Or so I have read.
However, as you say, it's not a production quality stack, though it does work fine for everyday end user purposes (I've used it extensively).
The level of Windows ignorance on this list is quite incredible. Lack of knowledge is excusable (this is a Linux list, after all) — simply making up facts, however, is not. Microsoft has considered IPv6 in Windows XP to be production quality since XP Service Pack 1:
In September 2002, Windows XP Service Pack 1 was released with the first edition of a production IPv6 stack and some IPv6-enabled components.
— <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726949.aspx> Granted, there is no GUI to configure IPv6 on Windows XP. However, Router Advertisement (RA) works fine, and you can set state addresses via the command line if you *really* need to:
On Windows XP a later, a new command-line tool is provided for configuring and managing IPv4. This tool uses the "netsh interface ip" command for configuring and managing IPv4.
On Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and later, this new command-line tool was enhanced to support the configuration and management of IPv6. This enhanced tool is the "netsh interface ipv6" command. Configuration changes made using the Netsh.exe commands are permanent and are not lost when the computer or the IPv6 protocol is restarted.
— <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms740598(v=vs.85).aspx> Only thing really lacking in XP is support for DNS over IPv6, and stateless DHCPv6 or RDNSS support (for DNS discovery). Hopefully by now XP will be dead (in my clientele, anyone likely to be deploying v6 is already a Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 shop). That all being said, the sooner we are rid of XP, the better.