RE: IPv6 and Microsoft - An excerpt fro m an Indepedndent study of mine on IPv6

[Penelope Baker]

Bugger.   I don't read this language.  Do you have a link to an English
language copy of this email?

Peace,
Penelope

> Hi!
> 
> I was doing an independent study on IPv6 at Rochester Institute of
> Technology as part my master's program.I did happen to look 
> at Microsoft's
> current state of IPv6 research and development. This is what 
> I found from
> there web site. I hope it's useful.
> 
> Regards,
> Ramesh
> 
> 
> Microsoft's implementation is a work-in-progress and does not 
> yet support
> all of the features of the IPv6 protocol. The features that 
> are currently
> supported are:
> . Basic IPv6 header processing
> . Hop-By-Hop and Destination Options headers
> . Fragmentation header
> . Neighbor Discovery
> . Stateless address autoconfiguration
> . ICMPv6
> . Multicast Listener Discovery (a.k.a. IGMPv6)
> . Automatic and configured tunnels
> . IPv6 over IPv4 (Carpenter/Jung draft)
> . UDP and TCP over IPv6
> . Raw packet transmission
> 
> They do not (yet) support mobility, authentication, 
> encryption, or routing
> headers. Our next major release will have at least the 
> minimum required
> mobility support as well as partial authentication and 
> security support.
> They have done some interoperability testing at the UNH 
> interoperability
> Lab, and have a machine on the 6bone. They do especially 
> encourage other
> IPv6 implementers to download their code for testing.
> 
> The current release runs on NT 4 and NT 5 build 1773 (or 
> later). Build 1773
> was distributed at WinHEC '98. (NT 5 Beta 2 will be supported 
> when it is
> available. NT 5 Beta 1 is not supported.) At this time, 
> Microsoft Research
> has no plans to support this experimental stack on Windows 95 
> or Windows 98.
> It is their choice to implement IPv6 in NT as a separate 
> protocol stack from
> the existing IPv4 stack. This allows for ease of 
> experimentation with IPv6
> without affecting existing IPv4 functionality.
> 
> They also have available applications and utilities such as 
> ping6, tracert6,
> ttcp6 (over both UDP and TCP), and ftp6/ftpd6. Those for 
> which we can freely
> distribute the source code are included in the release. For 
> more info, visit
> MS V6:http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/
> 
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> 
> Ramesh Shanmuganathan
> 233D Perkins Green
> Perkins Road
> Rochester
> NY 14623
> Tel: 716-424-8384/8796
> E-mail: s.ramesh-rit@ieee.org
> Internet: http://www.rit.edu/~rxs6469
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