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This is a comparison of operating systems in regard to their support of the IPv6 protocol.

OS Version Claimed IPv6-ready Installed by default DHCPv6 ND RDNSS Notes
AIX 4.3 Yes Yes Yes No
AlliedWare Plus 5.4.4 Yes Yes Yes No
Android 5.0 (Lollipop) Yes[1][2] Yes No[3] Yes Supports ND-RDNSS in Android 5.0 and above. Does not support DHCPv6.[3] Suffers from intermittent loss of its unicast address on some phones.[4]
Cisco IOS 15.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes[5] Support for RDNSS option as of 15.4(1)T, 15.3(2)S.
Debian 3.0 (woody) Yes Yes Yes Yes RDNSS support with "rdnssd" and "resolvconf" or "openresolve" packages.
Fedora 13 Yes Yes[6] Yes[6] Yes[6]
FreeBSD 9.0 Yes[7] Yes Addon[8] Yes[9]
HP-UX 11i Yes Yes Yes Yes [10]
IBM i 7.1 Yes Yes Yes No [11]
iOS 4.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes[12] iOS supports stateless DHCPv6 since version 4 and stateful DHCPv6 since 4.3.1.
Juniper JUNOS 14.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes RDNSS support introduced in JUNOS 14.1[13]
macOS Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Yes Yes Yes[14] Yes[15] Versions 10.7 through 10.10 often prefer IPv4 even when working IPv6 connectivity is available.[16] Versions 10.11 and up will prioritize IPV6 Traffic in spec with Happy Eyeballs.[17]
MeeGo 1.2 No[18] Yes[19] No Yes[20]
NetBSD 7.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes
OpenBSD 5.2 Yes Yes Addon[8] Yes RDNSS is only supported for rtadvd so far.
openSUSE 42.1 (Leap) Yes[21] Yes Yes Yes openSUSE Leap 42.1 is a hybrid distribution using source code from SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1.
OpenVMS 8.3 Yes Yes No No
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Yes[22] Yes Yes[8] Yes
Solaris 10 Yes Yes Yes No
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Yes[23] Yes Yes Yes
Symbian 7.0 Yes Yes No No [2]
Ubuntu 11.04 to 13.10 Yes Yes Yes Yes RDNSS support available so long as NetworkManager uses IPv6 "Automatic" setting, otherwise "rdnssd" package required.
webOS 2.1.0 No No No No [24]
Windows NT [includes
Windows 10 Mobile] 		5.1 (XP) Yes No Addon[8] No Windows XP users can use Dibbler, an open source DHCPv6 implementation.--update: windows xp fully supports ipv- but NOT ipv6 DNS queries (nslookup)[25]
6.X (Vista), 7, 8, 8.1, 10 Yes[26] Yes Yes[8] Addon rdnssd-win32 provides an open source implementation of ND RDNSS[27]
Windows Mobile 6.5 Yes Yes Lite[28] No If the OEM explicitly unsets the SYSGEN_TCPIP6 pre-processor symbol, the built image will not have any IPv6 capabilities.
Windows Phone 7.5 No No No No Windows Phone 8 might have some support.[29]
8(.1)[30] Yes Yes Yes No Private lab research. No privacy extensions (RFC4941).
z/OS V1R4.0 Yes Yes No[31]
z/VM V5R1.0 Yes Yes No No [32]
z/VSE V4R2 Addon[33] No Via a third party TCP/IP stack, IP6/VSE from Barnard Software, Inc.

Notes

  • Operating systems that support neither DHCPv6 nor SLAAC cannot automatically configure unicast IPv6 addresses.
  • Operating systems that support neither DHCPv6 nor ND RDNSS cannot automatically configure name servers in an IPv6-only environment.

References

  1. ^ Issue 3389: Full IPv6 Android support
  2. ^ Support connecting to IPv6-only wireless networks
  3. ^ a b Issue 32621: Support for DHCPv6 (RFC 3315)
  4. ^ Issue 32662: Frequently ignores ICMPv6 RAs and other multicast traffic
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ a b c "Fedora 9 Installation Guide Chapter 9. Network Configuration". Fedora Project. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  7. ^ FreeBSD Handbook.
  8. ^ a b c d e IPv6 Operating Systems.
  9. ^ FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Release Notes.
  10. ^ "HP-UX 11i IPv6".
  11. ^ "IBM i 7.1 Information Center, Configuring IPv6".
  12. ^ iPhone IPv6 Debugging Simplified with Ip6config — The IPv6 Experts.net
  13. ^ http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.1/topics/reference/configuration-statement/dns-server-address-edit-protocols-router-advertisement.html
  14. ^ nanog: Mac OS X Lion has DHCPv6
  15. ^ nanog: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
  16. ^ [RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/hampered-eyeballs Hampering Eyeballs - Observations on Two "Happy Eyeballs" Implementations]
  17. ^ [IEEE Mailing List: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg22455.html [v6ops] Apple and IPv6 - Happy Eyeballs]
  18. ^ "Bug 10984 - IPv6 Support declaration".
  19. ^ "Bug 10049 - No IPv6 in handset UX".
  20. ^ "rtnl: Receive notification of RDNSS from IPv6 router advertisements".
  21. ^ Release Notes for openSUSE Leap 42.1.
  22. ^ IPv6 Ready Logo Program Approved List.
  23. ^ Release Notes for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
  24. ^ "Palm Pre Plus - IPv6 support".
  25. ^ DHCPv6: Dibbler - a portable DHCPv6
  26. ^ IPv6 Ready Logo Program Approved List.
  27. ^ rdnssd-win32 | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net
  28. ^ "DHCPv6 Lite Registry Settings".
  29. ^ "IPv6 Support Coming With Windows Phone 8". Archived from the original on 2012-05-07.
  30. ^ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/hh994905.aspx
  31. ^ "z/OS V1R12.0 Communications Server IPv6 Network and Application Design Guide".
  32. ^ "z/VM IPv6 Support".
  33. ^ "About z/VSE".

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