[mdlug] ipv6 in Centos

[Dan Pritts]

RHEL5 has no major issues with IPV6.  Most of our servers at
Internet2 run RHEL5 and most of them do IPV6 in production.

The one big problem is that the kernel it's based on has 
inferior ip6tables support.  No connection tracking, I think.

I never use the config tools so i didn't notice that it didn't work.

I'm not their biggest fan, but FYI Windows Vista/7/2008 have
excellent IPv6 support as well.  2003 I believe mostly works
and XP basically works but ipv6 is a separate add-on.


On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 07:14 -0500, Carl T. Miller wrote:
>> I was amazed.  Ipv6 is fully supported in Centos 6.
>> Even the firewall tools (system-config-firewall and
>> lokkit) configure ipv4 and ipv6 automatically.  I
>> also noticed that my RackSpace server has an ipv6
>> address, so I'm guessing they support it as well.
> 
> I'm using IPv6 in later versions of CentOS5 as well; no real issues.
> The firewall support in the default system-* tools isn't there but I use
> fwbuilder for deploying iptables rules so I get IPv6-iptables support
> through that. 
> 
>> It looks like I'll be using ipv6 sooner than I
>> thought!  Thanks for the presentation, Mike.
> 
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