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Re: [81attendees] Mac OS X on the "ietf-v6only" network?

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Mon, 25 July 2011 13:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [81attendees] Mac OS X on the "ietf-v6only" network?
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I selected the IPv6 only network just now using MacOS X Lion.

It appears that Lion has autoconfigured a SLAAC address (in that the address doesn't look like one assigned from a DHCP pool), and a privacy address, and has got DNS resolvers via DHCPv6 (just the two v6 resolvers, where DHCPv4 gives two IPv4 and two IPv6 resolver addresses).

With this configuration I can read/send mail on my home university account using Mac Mail with secure IMAP/smtp, and of course read my university and other (e.g. IETF) web content just fine.

So it turns out that the IPv6 only network here is now a pretty nice way to focus on work without being tempted to visit some non work-related legacy IPv4 site ;)

Tim

On 25 Jul 2011, at 08:07, Gunter Van de Velde (gvandeve) wrote:

> Only thing is that without DNS info it is sort of useless. Obviously one
> can manually provide the OS that info.
> (or run Lion to get that info from DHCPv6)
> 
> G/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 81attendees-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:81attendees-bounces@ietf.org]
> On Behalf Of Bob Hinden
> Sent: 25 July 2011 07:39
> To: Ross Finlayson
> Cc: 81attendees@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [81attendees] Mac OS X on the "ietf-v6only" network?
> 
> Ross,
> 
> I tried the v6only wireless network and IPv6 auto-configuratin is
> working.  There is also DHCPv6, but auto-config should work.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> 
>> I'm eager to try out the "ietf-v6only" wireless network, but I find
> that my Macbook - running Mac OS X 10.6.8 - doesn't work on this
> network, apparently because it doesn't have a DHCPv6 client.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to get DHCPv6 client functionality working on Mac
> OS X?  (Would I get it automatically if I were to upgrade to the new Mac
> OS X "Lion"?)
>> 
>> 	Ross.
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