IPV6 on XP

[Robert M. Gary]

Does anyone know if a JRE that supports using IPV6 on XP? Sun's JRE 1.5
seems to still not offer support for IPV6 on XP.

-Robert

 

[Roedy Green]

Does anyone know if a JRE that supports using IPV6 on XP? Sun's JRE 1.5
seems to still not offer support for IPV6 on XP.

IPv6 will need some support in the OS and presumably some
configuration to turn it on. I'm stuck on W2K. Does XP under anything
support IPv6? That means your router and ISP would have to be IPv6
aware too.

Java in general has IPv6 support.

 

[Robert M. Gary]

Sun says that they do not support IPV6 on XP at this point. XP does
support IPV6 so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Your routers only need to be configured for IPV6 if you need to go
through a router. I selected machines on my network that can talk w/o
going through the network and it seems to work fine.

-Robert

 

[Manfred Rosenboom]

Does anyone know if a JRE that supports using IPV6 on XP? Sun's JRE 1.5
seems to still not offer support for IPV6 on XP.

At http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/net/ipv6_guide/
you will find the following text:


Supported Operating Systems

The following operating systems are now supported by the J2SE reference
implementation:

- Solaris 8 and higher
- Linux kernel 2.1.2 and higher (kernel 2.4.0 and higher
recommended for better IPv6 support)
- Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2003

But have in mind: the IPv6 stack isn't installed on a Windows XP
machine by default. You have to add it manually.

Best,
Manfred