Comparison of IPv6 support in operating systems

This is a comparison of operating systems in regard to their support of the IPv6 protocol.

OS Version Claimed IPv6-ready Installed by Default DHCPv6 ND RDNSS Notes
AIX 4.3 Yes Yes Yes No
AlliedWare Plus 5.4.4 Yes Yes Yes No
Android 5.0 (Lollipop) Yes[1][2] Yes No[3] Yes Supports ND-RDNSS in Android 5.0 and above. Does not support DHCPv6.[3] Suffers from intermittent loss of its unicast address on some phones.[4]
Cisco IOS 15.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes[5] Support for RDNSS option as of 15.4(1)T, 15.3(2)S.
Fedora 13 Yes Yes[6] Yes[6] Yes[6]
FreeBSD 9.0 Yes[7] Yes Addon[8] Yes[9]
HP-UX 11i Yes Yes Yes Yes [10]
IBM i 7.1 Yes Yes Yes No [11]
iOS 4.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes[12] iOS supports stateless DHCPv6 since version 4 and stateful DHCPv6 since 4.3.1.
Juniper JUNOS 14.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes RDNSS support introduced in JUNOS 14.1[13]
Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Yes Yes Yes[14] Yes[15] Versions 10.7 and later often prefer IPv4 even when working IPv6 connectivity is available.[16]
MeeGo 1.2 No[17] Yes[18] No Yes[19]
NetBSD 5.1 Yes Yes Addon[8] Yes RDNSS is only supported for rtadvd so far.
OpenBSD 5.2 Yes Yes Addon[8] Yes RDNSS is only supported for rtadvd so far.
OpenVMS 8.3 Yes Yes No No
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Yes[20] Yes Yes[8] Yes
Solaris 10 Yes Yes Yes No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Yes[21] Yes Yes Yes
Symbian 7.0 Yes Yes No No
Ubuntu 11.04 to 13.10 Yes Yes Yes Yes RDNSS support available so long as NetworkManager uses IPv6 "Automatic" setting, otherwise "rdnssd" package required.
webOS 2.1.0 No No No No [22]
Windows NT 5.1 (XP) Yes No Addon[8] No Windows XP users can use Dibbler, an open source DHCPv6 implementation [23]
6.X (Vista),(7),(8) Yes[24] Yes Yes[8] Addon rdnssd-win32 provides an open source implementation of ND RDNSS[25]
Windows Mobile 6.5 Yes Yes Lite[26] No If the OEM explicitly unsets the SYSGEN_TCPIP6 pre-processor symbol, the built image will not have any IPv6 capabilities.
Windows Phone 7.5 No No No No 8 might have some support.[27]
8(.1)[28] Yes Yes Yes No Private lab research. No privacy extensions (RFC4941).
z/OS V1R4.0 Yes Yes No[29]
z/VM V5R1.0 Yes Yes No No [30]
z/VSE V4R2 Addon[31] No Via a third party TCP/IP stack, IP6/VSE from Barnard Software, Inc.

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Issue 3389: Full IPv6 Android support
  2. ↑ Support connecting to IPv6-only wireless networks
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Issue 32621: Support for DHCPv6 (RFC 3315)
  4. ↑ Issue 32662: Frequently ignores ICMPv6 RAs and other multicast traffic
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Fedora 9 Installation Guide Chapter 9. Network Configuration". Fedora Project. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  7. ↑ FreeBSD Handbook.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 IPv6 Operating Systems.
  9. ↑ FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes.
  10. ↑ "HP-UX 11i IPv6".
  11. ↑ "IBM i 7.1 Information Center, Configuring IPv6".
  12. ↑ iPhone IPv6 Debugging Simplified with Ip6config — The IPv6 Experts.net
  13. ↑ http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.1/topics/reference/configuration-statement/dns-server-address-edit-protocols-router-advertisement.html
  14. ↑ nanog: Mac OS X Lion has DHCPv6
  15. ↑ nanog: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
  16. ↑ [RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/hampered-eyeballs Hampering Eyeballs - Observations on Two "Happy Eyeballs" Implementations]
  17. ↑ "Bug 10984 - IPv6 Support declaration".
  18. ↑ "Bug 10049 - No IPv6 in handset UX".
  19. ↑ "rtnl: Receive notification of RDNSS from IPv6 router advertisements".
  20. ↑ IPv6 Ready Logo Program Approved List.
  21. ↑ Release Notes for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
  22. ↑ "Palm Pre Plus - IPv6 support".
  23. ↑ DHCPv6: Dibbler - a portable DHCPv6
  24. ↑ IPv6 Ready Logo Program Approved List.
  25. ↑ rdnssd-win32 | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net
  26. ↑ "DHCPv6 Lite Registry Settings".
  27. ↑ "IPv6 Support Coming With Windows Phone 8". Archived from the original on 2012-05-07.
  28. ↑ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/hh994905.aspx
  29. ↑ "z/OS V1R12.0 Communications Server IPv6 Network and Application Design Guide".
  30. ↑ "z/VM IPv6 Support".
  31. ↑ "About z/VSE".

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