IPv6 & Linux - Current Status - Distributions
Version: 1.70 from 2003-03-09
Copyright 2001-2003 by Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>, original site of publishing:
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/
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Contents
Following table should show the status of some major Linux distributions
in case of IPv6 enabling, work in progress...
If you find a still unknown or probably in the table and
know more about it, please send corrections to me - thank you!
- For SuSE I got some information from the distributor
and others
- For Red Hat I ran some tests, and got informations from
developers and beta testers
- For Linux-Mandrake 8.0 I got some information from beta
testers and others
- For PLD Linux Distribution (ra) I got information from
core developers
- For Debian I got information from an developer
Comparison of currently available major Linux distributions
Legend:
| yes |
built-in native IPv6 support |
| no-hint |
IPv6-support can be enabled by doing some work |
| no |
packet not IPv6 enabled |
| n/a |
packet not available |
| n/a-hint |
packet not availabe, but there are hints or other packets (which
do the same) available |
Data:
- Following table is now created using a self created Perl progam.
- Data is needed like following in use current: pld-1v0.txt, rhl-6v2.txt,
rhl-7v1.txt, rhl-7v2.txt,
rhl-7v3.txt, rhl-8v0.txt,
suse-7v1.txt, suse-7v2.txt,
suse-7v3.txt, suse-8v0.txt,
suse-8v1.txt, debian.txt
, debian-3v0.txt, mandrake-8v0.txt, mandrake-8v1.txt.
- Sorting is done by separate files named: applications.txt and applications-full.txt
- If you know of bugs or missing data in the table, you can send
fixes in diff to the txt files, too now.
Mirroring issue:
- If this page is mirrored using rsync, it will be broken on remote
side, if SSI and XBitHack are not enabled.
- In this case, you can read the table directly via IPv6+Linux-status-distributions-current.html
(native table without HTML, HEADER and BODY tags).
Additionals:
- Debian
- IPv6 information page of developers:
- IPv6-enabled packages
- SuSE
- IPv6 enabled packages of (ex-)developers:
- Red Hat Linux
- IPv6 enabled packages of developers for 7.x:
- RedHat Linux 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 users should update to 7.3 now
- RedHat Linux 7.x users are able to update their packages mostly
with the RawHide ones if needed, a mirror in Europe is i.e. at
Comparison:
If no table is shown, try this URL: IPv6+Linux-status-distributions-current.html
(native table without HTML, HEADER and BODY tags).
New: There is also an extended version of this table available,
including more applications and distributions and also some statistical
values on last rows. You can get it here: IPv6+Linux-status-distributions-current-full.html
(native table without HTML, HEADER and BODY tags).
Credits
- Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek # pld.org.pl>: PLD
- Ole Ingar Bentstuen <obentstu # chello.no>
- Pekka Savola <pekkas # netcore.fi>: Red Hat
- Bjoern Jacke <bjacke at exsuse dot de>: SuSE
- Chris Ricker <kaboom # gatech.edu>
- Vincent GUYOT <vguyot # yahoo.com>
- David Ranch <dranch # trinnet.net>: Mandrake
- Craig Small <csmall # debian.org>: Debian
- Boris Wesslowski <bw # inside-security.de>
- Torbjörn Eklöv <torbjorn dot eklov at interlan dot se>