[OT] IPv6 applications in active use

[Nathan Lutchansky]

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 07:14:34PM +0200, Nicolas DEFFAYET wrote:
> > From: owner-6bone@ISI.EDU [mailto:owner-6bone@ISI.EDU] On=20
> > Behalf Of Nathan Lutchansky
> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:28 PM
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> > The only services I use that don't have IPv6 support are=20
> > CUPS, X, and VNC. =20
> > IPv6 VNC would be really nice on the Windows side, but=20
> > considering that
> > Windows support for everything is so unbelievably weak right=20
> > now I'm not
> > surprised.
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> X and VNC have IPv6 support:
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> VNC 3.3.2r3: ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/

Yes, it's geared for KAME though (natch) and it doesn't compile on Linux
without a lot of hacking.  I spent an hour getting the viewer to compile,
and just gave up on the server.

At any rate, most of my VNC connections are to Windows systems (tech=20
support and whatnot) so until the Win32 server supports IPv6, having an=20
IPv6-enabled Unix VNC package isn't much use to me.

> XFree 3.3.3.1: http://cvsweb.pld.org.pl/

Yuck!  I'm not recompiling the entire X package!  :-)

> I think CUPS too but i don't find the patch.

I haven't found a patch for CUPS.  If I get bored I'll write one.

Anyway, the point of my last message was that much networking software
really is becoming IPv6-ready "out of the box".  We've been able to patch
support into packages for a while, but that shouldn't be required.  I
should just be able to put a fresh Windows/RedHat/Debian/BSD install on a
machine, plug it into an Ethernet segment with an IPv6 router on it, and
have it WORK.  On *nix systems, we're very nearly to that point now.

> You can find a lot of informations about ipv6 support on (thank Peter
> for this excellent page, don't forgot to update it):
> http://bieringer.mirrors.fastnetxp.com/status/IPv6+Linux-status-apps.html

Yes, Peter does an excellent job keeping up this resource.  I send him=20
updates regularly.

> If many people want help me to build a FTP with all ipv6 patchs, ipv6
> apps patched, ipv6 docs, and more; please contact me.

Seems like the biggest problem that IPv6 catalogs have is that of becoming=
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outdated.  Peter Bieringer's site is the best one out there in terms of=20
tracking native and patched support in various apps and having up-to-date=
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information.

If you're serious about keeping a complete, up-to-date archive, good luck=
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to you.  -Nathan

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