IPv6 support

[Thilo2]

About when can we expect IPv6 support to be included into TeamSpeak? :D
Now that IPv6 is becoming more and more common, and it actually is easy to include into programs, I was wondering when it is implemented in TeamSpeak ...

[Dummer Sack]

Not soon I think (cause there are more urgent matters at the moment).

But I agree that it would be great if IPv6 would be supported.

[guldi]

It would actually like to know when IPv6 is really comming (not the discussion over IPv6 which is open since YEARS !!!)

I agree to Dummer Sack, there are probably much more important things in TS for the next time (weeks / months / ... ??)


Who has IPv6 capable network devices (switches / routers /....) at home (apart from Linux/FreeBSD/... based routers) ?

[Dummer Sack]

Actually one of my routers (cisco) has IPv6 support (not that I can use it with my ISP).

[Thilo2]

For example Spacenet in germany supports native IPv6 dialup connections, as far as I know. I personally do have a tunnel into the IPv6 net running over a 1&1 root server, they offer IPv6 tunnels for free to everyone who runs a server there :D
One large advantage is the fact, that after redialup when t-online disconnects every 24 hours my router has an automatic script that starts the connection again and resets the tunnel end-point ... this means, the ipv6 connections stay alive :)

[ScratchMonkey]

The important thing is for TS3 to not do anything that would prevent use of IPv6 if the underlying libraries support it. All recent OS's include an IPv6 stack, and Fedora Core 2 included automatic setup for 6to4 tunneling using an anycast address to find the nearest tunnel endpoint.

Googling for "ipv6 programming" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ipv6+programming&btnG=Google+Search) turns up a lot of resources. Here's a good one explaining how to write dual-stack code:

http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~eva/IPv6-web/ipv6.html

[Thilo2]

I haven't found the time yet to look into the URLs you provided, but as far as I know if you open a socket under Linux and tell the server to listen on all local addresses INADDR_ANY or something like that it should be, then it will also accept incoming connections over the IPv4 protocol. The source addresses will be mapped from ipv4 to v6 space - and will look like ::ffff:192.168.0.1 - this way you do not really have to care about ipv4 socket stuff. Though under windows this is gonna be a different story of course.

[sgtbenc]

I found this place for IPv6 tunneling: http://ipv6tb.he.net/. Sadly I don't have any IPv6 devices. But my next router will have it (which may be soon).