So, is anyone else besides me kind of disappointed that there aren't
any new IPv6 bits in Snow Leopard? Being an operating release geared
towards "updating the guts" I was really hoping for a newer IPv6
stack:
Well, I was hoping my desktop icons wouldn't disappear after
disconnecting my external monitor... Can't always get what you want.
At least now pasting text from a Safari window in Mail works without
trouble.
Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard:
$ sysctl -a | grep kame_version
net.inet6.ip6.kame_version: 20010528/apple-darwin
Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard:
$ sysctl -a | grep kame_version
net.inet6.ip6.kame_version: 20010528/apple-darwin
Not sure if that means much...
At the minimum, we *really* need OS-integrated DHCPv6 support,
including autoconfig+stateless DHCPv6 to at least pick up DNS
servers...
Last year at an IETF meeting Apple's Stewart Cheshire shared his
dislike for the notion that you would have to run a big, fat protocol
like DHCPv6 just to do this, and although he didn't say there would
never be DHCPv6 in MacOS, he suggested that nobody should hold their
breath. I share his dislike of DHCPv6, putting DNS server addresses in
RAs with RFC 5006 is much nicer. Can't test it, but somehow I think
this isn't supported in 10.6 either, though. Or a more Apple-like way
would be to discover your DNS servers with bonjour...
I'm rather disappointed that there is no ip6addrctl / RFC 3484 policy
table support. I also submitted a bug that IPv6 packets larger than 2k
wouldn't work through Firewire networking almost 2 years ago but that
one is still open.
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