This is a comparison of operating systems in regards to their support of the IPv6 protocol.
| OS | Version | Claimed IPv6-ready | Installed by Default | DHCPv6 | RDNSS | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 7 | Windows 7 | Yes[1] | Yes | Yes[2] | No | |||||||
| Windows XP | SP2 | Yes[3] | No | Addon[2] | No | Configurable by command-line only. | ||||||
| Mac OS X | 10.5 (Leopard) | Yes[1] | Yes | No[2] | No[4] | DNS name resolution in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) fails for hosts with a CNAME record.[5] (Most publicly-accessible hosts have CNAME records.) At present no Mac OS X releases support DHCPv6 or RDNSS, so DNS servers must be specified manually. | ||||||
| FreeBSD | 7.1 | Yes[1] | Yes | Addon[2] | No | |||||||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 6 | Yes[1] | Yes | Yes[2] | Yes | |||||||
| Ubuntu Linux | 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | 11 | Yes[6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| OpenVMS | 8.3 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |||||||
| Solaris | 10 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||
| iOS | 4.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |||||||
| Cisco IOS | 15.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Symbian OS | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | No | No | [1] | ||||||
| AIX | 4.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Android | WiFi only[7] | No | No | No |
See also
- ISOC IPv6 FAQ with OS tips
References
- ^ a b c d IPv6 Ready Logo Program Approved List. Cite error: The named reference "test" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c d e IPv6 Operating Systems.
- ^ Windows XP IPv6 review.
- ^ http://lists.apple.com/archives/ipv6-dev/2009/Jul/msg00010.html
- ^ There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly
- ^ Release Notes for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
- ^ Issue 3389: Full IPv6 Android support