everyone--
One of the new features in the latest round of AirPort Extreme and
Time Capsule products that Apple quietly released earlier this month
is improved IPv6 capabilities. This wasn't announced in any press
releases, since these new features are still intended primarily for
advanced users only, i.e. mainly the subscribers of this list and
leading IPv6 service providers.
I'm going to describe briefly the improvements here.
+ support in the DNS resolving server for IPv6 forwarding addresses.
+ new DHCPv6 client in IPv6 host mode:
- supports both stateless and stateful DHCPv6;
- requests DNS server IPv6 addresses and merges with IPv4 addresses.
+ new IPv6 "native router" configuration mode:
- available only in IPv4/NAT mode;
- not available when WAN is configured for PPPoE (sigh);
- manual IPv6 WAN configuration is optional;
- DHCP6 client requests prefix delegation, advertised on LAN bridge.
+ stateless DHCP6 server:
- available in both IPv6 tunnel and router modes;
- advertises the IPv6 address of the integrated DNS resolver;
- no stateful DHCP6 service supported.
As improved IPv6 capability is A New Feature, it will not be made
available in firmware maintenance releases for earlier AirPort
Extreme/Express and Time Capsule products.
The IPv6 features in AirPort and Time Capsule are mainly for the
purpose of supporting advanced users of IPv6 networking and for
participation in engineering trials of native IPv6 service by
residential Internet service providers. If you're an IPv6 service
provider and you discover interoperability problems, then I'm power-
motivated to get them fixed as soon as possible. I'm under some
time pressure to get everything related to this feature nailed down
and solid, so please hurry if you can.
Please file problems you discover at http://bugreport.apple.com for
best results. If that doesn't work for you, then email me directly,
but everyone will be happier if you go through the bug reporter.
--
james woodyatt <email@hidden>
member of technical staff, communications engineering
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