[PLUG] IPv6 support in Windows

Charlie Schluting charlie at schluting.com
Sun Jul 10 23:26:06 UTC 2005


Ed Sawicki wrote:
> Does anyone here have personal experience with IPv6 on Windows?
> I'm updating a section on IPv6 for one of my Linux books and I'd like
> to be able to make some sort of comparison with Windows. I investigated
> this about 2 years ago. At the time, there was no IPv6 support in 
> production
> Windows products but there was developer support. Now I see that
> Microsoft claims IPv6 support in Windows Server 2003 and XP/SP1
> but I also see a Web page that references Windows Server 2003 "Trial
> Software". I don't have Windows Server 2003 or a non-Home version of
> XP and I'd like to avoid buying copies.
> 

Run 'ipv6 install' and 'ipv6 if' and it will be up and running (assuming 
you have a router that provides the autoconfiguration info). This is on XP.

It works.. not much else to say.

-Charlie



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