This is a comparison of

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

s in regard to their support of the

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol, communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic ...

protocol.

Notes

*Operating systems that support neither DHCPv6 nor SLAAC cannot automatically configure unicast

IPv6 address An Internet Protocol version 6 address (IPv6 address) is a numeric label that is used to identify and locate a network interface of a computer or a Node (networking), network node participating in a computer network using IPv6. IP addresses are ...

es. *Operating systems that support neither DHCPv6 nor ND RDNSS cannot automatically configure

name server A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates an often humanly meaningful, text-based identifier to a system-internal, often numeric identi ...

s in an IPv6-only environment.

References

External links

ISOC IPv6 FAQ
with OS tips {{IPv6 IPv6 Computing comparisons IPv6 support