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Transition mechanisms

Operating Systems play a key role as IPv6 transition mechanisms.

Operating systems implement IPv6 itself; they aren't really transition mechanisms per se.--99.234.28.46 (talk) 05:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Linux distributions

Why linux distributions are here repeated 4 times? Ipv6 is more about kernel support. DHCP is done be userspace components, exactly in the same way as is done in freebsd. I suggest merging 4 linux distributions into one entry: Linux. I do not know howere how to merge citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.213.255.7 (talk) 17:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

None of the columns are determined solely by the kernel, and it is quite possible to make a Linux system without any IPv6 support, just look at webOS.
There are actually 8 entries using the Linux kernel in this list. The only one I think should be removed is "Access Linux Platform", which seems mostly dead. --Cybjit (talk) 19:18, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to add that DHCPv6 has its quirks on Linux (and other *nix) distros using dhclient, as it ignores the prefix length announced by the DHCP server and always sets it to 64 bit. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2011-March/028314.html for example. --93.132.232.80 (talk) 22:27, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mac OS X bugs

I find it strange that for MacOS 10.6 a bug is mentioned while no bugs for other OSes are mentioned (hard to believe there aren't any) and the bug is not relevant today because it has been fixed in the latest available version/update. Also, all four references for this trace back to a single author (which would be me). --81.69.168.171 (talk) 19:00, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mentions bugs is OK, but is dependent on contributors. Mentioning obsolete bugs is not useful, removed the cruft. --Cybjit (talk) 13:39, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The data is too old

Where is the data for Debian? Where for Linux Mint?88.152.0.24 (talk) 08:19, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ND-DNSSL Option

In the Table should be present a column for the ND DNSSL Option of the Router Advertisements, for some Operating-Systems exist (third party) tools that can catch this option but not for all. --2003:65:E67F:9CA7:E153:679B:33CF:6D84 (talk) 21:29, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Added note for Mac 10.11 that it will prefer IPV6 over IPV4 through Happy Eyeballs. - https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/v6ops/current/msg22455.html

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