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| Thread ID: 81604 | 2007-08-01 20:32:00 | Linux & IPv6 Botch-Up? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 575071 | 2007-08-01 20:32:00 | Linux, forward-thinking and super great set of operating systems that it is, generally supports IPv6 by default . As a result, when it’s connected to an IPv4 network (like most of ours at home and school), it spends a fair amount of time resolving addresses . What this looks like to the end user is very slow page loads in a web browser, a surefire way to turn new users off and send them fleeing back to IE and Windows . Article: . zdnet . com/?p=1167" target="_blank">education . zdnet . com |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 575072 | 2007-08-02 09:43:00 | IPv6 isn't too great on Vista either, from what I hear from users. | byte (11156) | ||
| 575073 | 2007-08-02 10:12:00 | Nope, IPv6 on Vista is just fine, no matter what the connection speed. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 575074 | 2007-08-02 10:47:00 | Yet another reason I like Gentoo and USE flags (-ipv6 for example) :D | Myth (110) | ||
| 575075 | 2007-08-02 22:49:00 | A worse problem is with the Xtra-model DLink 502T routers. I find that some programs won't even resolve addresses due to a bug in the firmware for DNS. I won't go into detail but an IPv6 DNS request will not even get a response and all subsequent IPv4 requests for the same address will return 1.0.0.0 for the IP. I only worked out what was happening through packet traces - it turns out that the programs that worked were the ones without IPv6 support. I told Xtra about this almost a year ago and as far as I know they've done nothing. My workaround is to get my laptop to use the Xtra DNS servers directly and bypass the router's DNS cache altogether. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 575076 | 2007-08-02 23:19:00 | Yet another reason I like Gentoo and USE flags (-ipv6 for example) :DAhh, but that's not just limited to gentoo. It's easy enough in pretty much every distro to simply recompile your kernel without IPv6 support. Then it doesn't matter what your programs are doing - if there is no IPv6 networking stack for them to use they'll simply fall back to IP4. :D | Erayd (23) | ||
| 575077 | 2007-08-03 00:54:00 | I use windows 2K is it worth installing IPv6 abilites yet, | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 575078 | 2007-08-03 01:19:00 | Not unless you want to use it on an IPv6 network, which I highly doubt is the case. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 575079 | 2007-08-03 03:01:00 | You don't need to compile the kernel without IPv6. Just turn it off if it's not needed. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 575080 | 2007-08-03 05:56:00 | Ahh, but that's not just limited to gentoo. It's easy enough in pretty much every distro to simply recompile your kernel without IPv6 support. Then it doesn't matter what your programs are doing - if there is no IPv6 networking stack for them to use they'll simply fall back to IP4. :DTrue, you can recompile the kernel so that there is no ipv6 support in any distro. Only Gentoo (as far as I'm aware) can you disable ipv6 capabilities in all apps system-wide | Myth (110) | ||
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