Re: The poor state of IPv6 apps (so far)

[Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:32:21AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> So I need IPv6 apps, and have been having a terrible time of it. I can  
> list where I am so far, if there is interest (or help available!), but I  
> do not have a single IPv6 client/server app running yet after two weeks  
> of work.

RHEL 5 (and hence Centos 5) was based upon work done in Fedora Core 6.  
Since then, lots of work has been done in Fedora to make sure the OS 
and applications work better on IPv6.  You might want to try running 
Fedora 9 to see if IPv6 works better there.  Here is a tracker for 
IPv6 related bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=195271

Specifically, there is a bug in RHEL 5 that I'm not sure has been 
fixed yet where the default route doesn't work:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243526

I've been using IPv6 on Fedora for a couple years now, and most stuff 
works fine (web browsing, FTP, IRC, SSH).  Granted, I haven't tried 
some of the more exotic applications like SIP or HIP.