Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 232
netbuzz writes in to note that some early adopters of Microsoft Vista are reporting problems with Vista's implementation of IPv6. An example:"'We are seeing a number of applications that are IP-based that do not like the addressing scheme of IPv6,' says one user. 'We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted. We're seeing this with Window's Vista machines. When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal.'"
That problem is fixed in (Score:2)
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The way Apple counts upgrades is a bit different. See, going from Windows XP to Vista is a very radical change, like moving from "classic" MacOS to OSX. But upgrading OSX from 10.2 to 10.3 is still a pretty serious change, like going from Windows 95 to 98. So it's not like you're paying for a sec
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No, it's not. Vista comes from Windows Server 2003's codebase, and 2003 came from XP. It's the same old Win32 code running on an updated NT foundation. Mac OS Classic and OS X, however, are two completely different operating systems. OS X derives from OpenStep and CoreFoundation, while OS Classic comes from the old System software dating back to 1984.
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Bots have no trouble finding e-mail addresses to spam. I imagine that in the face of near infinite IP addresses, they'll find some way to continue their atta
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(otoh the vista machine here has no problem with anything to do with ipv6 - this article is just incorrect.. the poster is blaming vista/ipv6 for shitty printer drivers).
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It is enough for anybody. The problem is that it's not enough for everybody.
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Or more precisely, for everybody and everything. The internet of things is commonly cited as a reason for IPv6.
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"2^32 addresses should be enough for EVERYBODY."
Order of magnitude more orders of magnitude (Score:4, Interesting)
Note to authors: If you don't understand what words mean, don't use them.
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"Note to authors: If you don't understand what words mean, don't use them."
That's ironic.
How do you know that you don't know, you know? (Score:2)
Also IPv4 (Score:4, Funny)
MS' Teredo (IPv6) blog (Score:5, Informative)
I am NOT surprised, given that... (Score:3, Interesting)
It may just be my long memory seeing repetitive mistakes by the software giant, but it seems like ALL of M$ network implementations seem to suffer in the early going until they manage to buy cheat or steal for good code to solve their own implementation messes...
Thoughts anyone?
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The biggest is that Microsoft wasn't the only one involved in the early networking. IBM was as well. LanMan was a joint effort, and I find it highly unlikely that IBM would need Novell's assistance to make networking work correctly.
Re: thought being suspect (Score:2)
At the time I was installing networks and a few months after the conversation I am mentioning, , M$ networking stabilize
yeah, but... (Score:2)
dot.Excuses .. (Score:4, Funny)
"But we also know that Windows Vista is the highest-quality, most secure and most broadly supported operating system we've ever released."
Hameroff adds that Microsoft is running an IPv6 network and "to my knowledge has not experienced these types of issues"
Re:dot.Excuses .. (Score:4, Funny)
But mediocre is just not good enough anymore.
So... (Score:4, Funny)
It fails without fail?
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I bet they'd get exactly the same if they installed ipv6 under xp too.
Very funny, but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Vista adoption is going to increase - it's a sad fact, and I can't see anyone denying it. Therefore IPv6 is going to experience stunted uptake from this blow.
The one benefit I can see is that anybody who really does see worthwhile benefits in adopting IPv6 will say "bugger M$, there are hundreds of Open Source solutions that support this without issue out of the box". Maybe this could have a positive impact on OSS uptake in the long-term.
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You have to use the new sockets/winsock functions to be ipv6 enabled for a start.. and most apps aren't (including things like Active Directory, which is a biggie.).
I've got a vista installation here.. it's running a whole heap of stuff.. the total list of listening ports from ipv6 capable apps is: 135,445 (SMB.. pity the domain controllers can't respond.. heh.). 3389 (TS), 5357 (No idea). Compared to a list of ipv4 listening ports abou
M$ and the future. (Score:2)
IPv6 adoption is going to be heavily stunted by this inadequacy if it isn't fixed pretty pronto
What makes you think people are going to use Vista? There's no evidence of that to date. Vista has other larger issues than IPv6 that keep people away from it.
Everyone knows that GNU/Linux or OSX is the upgrade path from XP.
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Twenty million licenses sold already is "no evidence"? That's more than all the active Linux and MacOS machines out there in just a few months.
I have Vista on my laptop, and it is quite an improvement over XP. The very few rough edges I've encounetered have been with support of oddball hardware, like my Sprint Wireless Broadband card, which didn't h
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I'm just glad it wasn't me for a change. I don't really hate Microsoft, but it sure seems like they hate me.
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This study [hitslink.com] shows there are already 5 times as many Vista workstations in use versus Linux workstations. Assuming Microsoft has sold ~20M copies through May, that means there are far fewer than 20M linux workstations in active use. Unless you assume that more than 4/5 Vista installs is pirated.
Note my original statement should have been qualified to compare Vista with Linux workstations, and not all "Linux machines". Comparing the population of a workstation OS to a server install base doesn't make much se
Real Numbers: Vista is a flop. (Score:2)
This study shows there are already 5 times as many Vista workstations in use versus Linux workstations. Microsoft has sold ~20M copies through May
Citing a web survey is bad, but you got it wrong too. Your little link showed 2.18% for "other" and 3.74% for Vista, which is neither a five times advantage nor anything to crow about, but it's bullshit. There are more than a billion web users [internetworldstats.com], so your little market share study has been gamed or there are 40e6 Vista users - twice the wild M$ estimates based
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Here's a hint: one billion internet USERS != 1 billion WORKSTATIONS. The majority of internet users share a PC, wither with family or and an Internet Cafe.
Vista is not selling AS FAST AS MEMORY MAKERS EXPECTED, but it is by no means not selling. I see Vista laptops galore on the Chicago commuter trains, far more than OSX or Linux machines. In fact, my Ubuntu laptop is the only Linux la
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seriously? I'm not trying to be mean here... but have you ever heard of Beta? as in Vista Beta? there were a c
They need a better implementation (Score:5, Informative)
Hell, it worked for them pretty good LAST time..
It's a feature! (Score:3, Funny)
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Blame Vista, or applications? (Score:5, Interesting)
So I have to wonder, is this really an issue with Vista's IPV6, is it an issue with the driver writers, or is it a minor issue with Vista's implementation of the layer that supports IP printers?
The article seems to indicate "we turned off IPV6 and then it started working". Well that tells us a little, but it's hardly time to start blaming the IPV6 stack. There's quite a few different components that could be responsible. I had problems with Firefox on Ubuntu on my network, and was able to track it down to a faulty implementation of DNS on my DSL modem only under IPV6.
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Both these things would be triggered by switching on the IPv6 in vista, but neither are any problem with vista (or even the PC).
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Has anyone thought of the possibility this is an IP ethernet printer, and it's firmware just isn't coded to tell the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 packets.
I thought of that exact possibility after I made my original post. It's a definite possibility, and from the little we know matches the data better than "Vista's IPV6 stack is broken". Personally I think putting out a big article saying "IPV6 on Vista is broken" before you really know anything is totally irresponsible.
Hopefully They Fix It Before... (Score:2)
Sigh. While it is entertaining to watch Vista get hammered over and over for security and bugs, it is kind of sad to know that so many are blindly buying it since they feel saddled to the Microsoft rut.
I wonder if all the issues and bad press with Vista is at least partly behind their flurry of licensing activity with various Linux distributions.
At any rate, licensing or no, I love Linux. The more I use it and learn about it, the more I am so glad I made the jump a few
Oh, is that all? (Score:4, Interesting)
We found this on Beta and tried to talk to MS, after being passed from piller to post and jerked round (we frankly have real work to get on with) we gave up. We tested with the full release, and, well, until we have time its just barred from the business.
Microsoft's new motto: (Score:3, Funny)
Vista Performance Tip (Score:4, Informative)
Micro$oft SOP Extract... (Score:2, Funny)
(1) Deliver a "world standard" implementation
(2) ???
(3) Offer Microsoft-only extensions with subsequent "patch" (for efficiency of course)
(4) Developers use the extensions
(5) Standard subverted!!
(6) Profit
Implementation Notes:
step (2) may be completely omitted for already well established and widely adopted standards (e.g. C, C++)
step (2) has recently been proposed as "Break something important"
I dare to ask, "who the hell cares"? (Score:3, Interesting)
Will it really be important some day for every physical item in my possession to have a unique address and an RFID tag?
Do sysadmins at big corporations really WANT every one of their machines to have an address that is uniquely addressable from anywhere on the Internet? Will this help to solve issues such as VPN'ing behind a firewall, etc.?
An honest question.
While You're In There (Score:4, Funny)
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Kids today have it easy. You tell them sneaker net and they say HUH?
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And I STILL got viruses!
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Back in my day, we had to carry reels of tape through a lake, uphill both ways, and when we finally got home with the tape, our dad would beat us to death with a punch card.
Now you try telling that to the kids today, and they won't believe you.
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Bah, whine, whine, bitch, complain. You don't know how easy you had it! Do you have any idea how hard it was to muster the energy to whoop your arse for being a pansy after carrying the school up that cliff brick by brick every morning? You don't know how good you had it.
Sincerely,
Your Teacher
Re:Simple solution. (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyway, why is this screwing anything up? My understanding on Linux/OSX is that enabling IPv6 doesn't change anything about the way IPv4 applications function, despite using a different addressing sceme. Why would this be any different for Vista? This is indicative of a layering problem...
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So, it's not completely transparent in Linux e
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Microsoft's Simple Solution (Score:2)
1. Buy this [staples.com].
2. And one of these [staples.com].
3. ???
4. Profit!
Re:Simple solution. (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not a Windows apologist by any stretch of the imagination, but this blatant misinformation needs to be corrected.
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rm
rm -r
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modprobe -r somemodule
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When was that?
Debian etch doesn't even come with hard disk driver modules compiled in anymore. Instead, it generates a small ramdisk image containing the modules your particular machine needs to mount the root filesystem. The bootloader then loads that ramdisk, and a script on the ramdisk loads the modules, mounts the root filesystem, and then starts init. My understanding is that other distros do something similar.
The nice thing about this approach is that it makes it fairly easy to do very weird st
Re:Simple solution. (Score:4, Informative)
Linux: A single command to *remove* ipv6 (rm
Hey, no thanks for the spoiler! (Score:2)
Re:Simple solution. (Score:5, Informative)
Or, if you're not an idiot, you just add "blacklist ipv6" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
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You can easily remove the ipv6.ko file and it's gone completely... It wouldnt be hard for distributions to split the kernel modules up into several packages.
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If you don't want to use IPv6, disabling it by blacklisting the module is all you need to do. Why would you need to go as far as deleting the .ko file?
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It's a ~300k file that sits harmlessly on disk when not in use. It's not some big piece of infrastructure that's wasting resources even when disabled.
Operating systems contain lots of features that are always or usually installed even when they're not being used. Things like USB support, even on older systems that don't have USB ports, and RS-232 support even on newer systems that lack serial ports. CD burning support, even if the machine doesn't have a burner. Support for MP3/Vorbis/WMA audio even if
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It's thinking like that which makes OEM Windows recovery CDs completely useless once you upgrade a motherboard or harddrive.
For the love of god, don't delete the IPv6 files to get back just a few meg of space. One day, you might want to lug your box over to a friends LAN and find that you actually need it.
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To be fair, not everybody is installing Linux onto a desktop system with a ton of storage. I've recently been doing some research on building set top boxes with Linux, and the whole system would probably
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I have to think your testing was somehow tainted by some other problem. At the very least, your results are atypical.
I've blacklisted the IPv6 driver on several different distro's on a variety of hardware and never seen a single side-effect. From Mandriva on my arcade cabinet to Kubuntu running on a PS3... and systems wi
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As for the avahi dependencies, this is an issue with the way ubuntu is packaged rather than an issue with linux as a whole, and stems from other packages which *use* features from avahi being compiled and linked against it.
My gentoo systems don't have avahi installed at all, infact i had to go and check
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99% of Mac users don't "need" Bonjour either, but it's convenient to have anyway. Avahi is another implementation of the same thing.
Since Avahi only resolves names in the ".local" zone, what are the "lot of problems with DNS" you're referring to?
Re:Simple solution. (Score:5, Informative)
Just sayin', the behavior is going to be different, and having some bugs to shake out is really no surprise.
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Q. How do I disable IPv6 in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008?
A. Unlike Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, IPv6 in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 cannot be uninstalled. However, you can disable IPv6 in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 by doing one of the following:
- In the Network Connections folder, obtain properties on all of your connections and adapters and clear the check box next to the Internet Protocol version 6 (TCP/IPv6) component in the list under This connection uses the following items.
This method disables IPv6 on your LAN interfaces and connections, but does not disable IPv6 on tunnel interfaces or the IPv6 loopback interface.
- Add the following registry value (DWORD type) set to 0xFF:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi
This method disables IPv6 on all your LAN interfaces, connections, and tunnel interfaces but does not disable the IPv6 loopback interface. You must restart the computer for this registry value to take effect.
For additional information about the DisabledComponents registry value, see Configuring IPv6 with Windows Vista.
If you disable IPv6, you will not be able to use Windows Meeting Space or any application that relies on the Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking platform or the Teredo transition technology.
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No, but fixing the problem in it's implementation can be. Then of course, MS can just sit on the bug without fixing it like they used to, but now they'd have a scapegoat to point at as for why. "We can't fix it because the patent troll is demanding more than we want to pay. You'll have to wait for the next OS release for that feature to be changed."
Re:Some kids are just social outcasts (Score:4, Insightful)
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http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id =6402758 [sun.com]
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0205.3/ 0002.html [iu.edu]
http://lists.ntp.isc.org/pipermail/questions/2007- April/013854.html [isc.org]
etc...
The problem often is in the OS itself, but sometimes the applications and drivers are th
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Re:And this is news because? (Score:4, Interesting)
I dunno. How about, it's news because it indicates that Microsoft's product testing is less than industrial strength?
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In other words, no software solution at an OS level is able to catch every bug. Not Windows, not Linux.
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they'll call it Service pack 2.
Re:Microsoft's IPv6 stack (Score:5, Funny)
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They call that 'virgin', heh.
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With Vista they tossed out the TCP/IP stack that they had allegedly stolen from one of the BSDs (don't remember which) and used (with modifications) from Win95 (or was it 3.11 for Workgroups?) all the way up to XP and 2003 server, right?
I'm sorry, but 'stolen' ? Isn't the BSD license like, 'do whatever you want want with it, we don't care (much)' ? How does this make Microsoft a thief of a BSD TCP implementation, and what would require them to contribute their changes back to the public ? Is Apple stealing from FreeBSD, too ?
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And there is where it matters, because you forgot the 'give credit where credit is due' part of the BSD license.
It's sharing when you follow the terms of the license, it's stealing when you don't.
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