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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 13:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [81attendees] Mac OS X on the "ietf-v6only" network?
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On 25 Jul 2011, at 09:15, Tim Chown wrote:

> 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

And here is the SMTP trail for this email, showing my Lion Mac sending from its IETF v6ONLY wireless network privacy address to my home university SMTP server using TLS, and from there our servers sending the mail on to the IETF list servers, all with IPv6 transport:

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I'm sure to many people this shouldn't be a surprise, but useful to highlight that it just works.

Tim

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