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[Max Tulyev]

Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk wrote:
>>> PS: Macintoys come IPv6 enabled already for quite some time too, they
>>> though have IPv6 disabled in Safari to avoid the above issue...
>> Are you sure about this?  It's certainly not the case on my mac (10.4), and 
>> I haven't poked around with any ipv6 settings, other than to enable it on 
>> the ethernet port.
> 
> No automatic tunneling but the link local addresses appear and stateless
> autoconfig looks like it would happen if a router was available.
> 
> <relurk>
> 
> Sam Wilson
> Network Team, IT Infrastructure (formerly Computing Services)
> Information Services, The University of Edinburgh
> Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

+1 ;)

i.e. if at the network to which Mac is connected there is DHCPv6 and it
works - we will see our IPv6 address when visiting for example
www.ripe.net with all Mac's setup by default.


-- 
WBR,
Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)