IPv6 Enabled Applications

This page contains information on how to get IPv6 enabled applications. If you have ported an application to an IPv6 stack, please submit it. Be sure to include a URL describing where to get the application and a description.

General patch repositories

The following sites are good sources for a patches to IPv6 enable applications:

ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/

A patch repository maintained by the KAME project.

ftp://ftp.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/IPv6/index.html

A patch repository maintained by the WIDE project.

http://www.imasy.org/~ume/ipv6/

IPv6 patches and FreeBSD ports (ex. ftpmirro, fwtk, gkrellm, pidentd, tcpwrapper)

http://www2.kame.net/faq/fom.cgi?file=45

IPv6-ready applications/patches list maintained by the KAME project.

Linux IPv6 applications

http://bofh.st/ipv6/apps.shtml
IPv6 applications/patches list.
http://www.v6.linux.or.jp/
Kernel patches and many IPv6 enabled applications (including packages for RPM and Debian).
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/status/IPv6+Linux-status-apps.html
IPv6 & Linux - Current Status - Applications

http://www.netbsd.org/packages/README-IPv6.html

IPv6-enabled applications available for installation on NetBSD

http://tipster6.ik.bme.hu/ipv6port/index.cgi?lang=en

An searchable and extensible IPv6 application and port database by the TIPSTER6 project in Hungary.

IPv6 Access Software

v6tun: v6tun is a program to allow an isolated IPv6 node to make use of the BSD Unix /dev/tun? device to tunnel IPv6 packets over IPv4 to a remote IPv6 network. The tunneling may be performed securely over SSH. The software is available from the WIDE project at ftp://ftp.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/IPv6/v6tun/
Toolnet6: Protocol exchange software for Windows 95/98 or WindowsNT 4.0.
Applications working on Windows95/98 or WindowsNT4.0 can access both IPv4 and IPv6 networks by this software.
You can download from: http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/network/pexv6-e.htm
totd: DNS-proxy to translate between IPv4 and IPv6 records in order to support NAT-PT and similar translation mechanism.
6to4: A script that helps setting up 6to4 IPv6 on BSD based systems. It's designed for modem dialup scenarios, but can be used with static IPs, too. You can find "an introductionto 6to4 IPv6" at http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/6to4.html

Mail

Sendmail: Patches to add IPv6 capabilities to Sendmail 8.9.1 are available from the WIDE project at ftp://ftp.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/IPv6/mail/
Also Sendmail 8.10.0 comes with IPv6 capability :).
Qmail: Patches for IPv6 additions for Qmail available from: http://www.rcac.tdi.co.jp/fujiwara/
Zmailer: Zmailer source (which includes IPv6 support) is available from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/mail/zmailer
Exim: One of most secure and reliable MTA which natively supports IPv6.
Inframail: This is an IPv6 port of the free Personal Edition of Inframail, supporting SMTP and POP3 (with HTTP and FTP as well).
Postie: An IPv6 port of the free version of the Postie command-line mail utuility. Does SMTP/POP3/IMAP and more.

DNS

BIND 9: A major rewrite of the popular BIND DNS Server from the Internet Software Consortium.

Multimedia

RAT for Windows NT: IPv6-enabled version of the Robust Audio Tool from UCL. Binaries for Windows NT are available at http://www.research.microsoft.com/msripv6/, source is available from UCL.
SDR for Windows NT: IPv6-enabled version of the Multicast Session Directory from UCL. Binaries for Windows NT are available at http://www.research.microsoft.com/msripv6, source is available from UCL.
Quake (well-known multiuser game): You can find Quake IPv6 port for KAME and Solaris8 at http://www.viagenie.qc.ca/en/quake.shtml. They have also Quake IPv6 Server at quake.ipv6.viagenie.qc.ca with no IPv4 address.
VideoLAN Client and Server: Starting from VLC 0.3.0 and VLS 0.3.2, the VideoLAN project streams MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 contents over UDP or HTTP, using IPv4 or IPv6.

Remote Access

SSH: Patches to add IPv6 capabilities to SSH Version 1 are available from the WIDE project at ftp://ftp.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/IPv6/ssh/
NcFTP: IPv6 support for NcFTP, a popular FTP client, is available from the KAME project at ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc. A Windows NT version for MSR IPv6 is available at http://www.research.microsoft.com/msripv6
lftp-2.0.x: Advanced ftp client that supports IPv6. Available from http://ftp.yars.free.net/projects/lftp/.
Libra FTP daemon: The Libra FTP daemon is an anonymous FTP server for Linux. It was tested on RedHat Linux 4.2, 5.x and 6.0. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6 address families.

WWW

Server

Apache
Patches to add IPv6 capabilities to Apache are available from the KAME project at ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/
There is also IPv6 patch for apache 1.3.11 at http://ftp2.v6.linux.or.jp/pub/Linux/IPv6-2/apache/apache_1.3.11-v6-20000125.diff.gz (2000/01/25).
Fnord!
IPv6-capable Web server for Windows NT. Source and binaries available at http://www.research.microsoft.com/msripv6
thttpd
IPv6 enabled Simple, Small, Portable, Fast, Secure Web server. It originally supports IPv6 (no patch required!).
mini_httpd
IPv6 & SSL enabled Web server.
Client

Mozilla
Mozilla now natively support IPv6 after (maybe) April 11, 2000. (See Mozilla status update page at http://www.mozilla.org/status/2000-04-11.html)
Internet Explorer
Binary update to add IPv6 capability to IE 4 is available for MSR IPv6 at http://www.research.microsoft.com/msripv6
lynx-2.8.2
IPv6 enabled lynx-2.8.2 is available from ftp://ftp.pasta.cs.uit.no/pub/Vermicelli/lynx-282-v6-19990829.
w3m
Yet another text www browser. It can natively access IPv6 WWW sites (doesn't need any patch!!).
wMosaic (multicast Mosaic)
A NCSA Mosaic derivative work with a lot of add-on (TABLE FRAME FONT...) IPv6/v4 implementation for HTTP and FTP.
Proxy and Cache

wwwoffle
IPv6 enabled WWW proxy, wwwoffle-2.5, is available from http://www.vermicelli.pasta.cs.uit.no/ipv6/software.html.
Squid
Patches to add IPv6 capabilities to the Squid web cache system are available from the KAME project at ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/
httrack
HTTrack is an open source offline browser tool for Unix and Windows.
The crawler seem to work with both v4 and v6 addresses.

NetNews

INN (server): Patches to add IPv6 capabilities to INN are available from NORTH.
You can also get ports for KAME FreeBSD2/FreeBSD3 at
http://www2.kame.net/dev/cvsweb.cgi/kame/freebsd2/ports/inn/(FreeBSD2)
http://www2.kame.net/dev/cvsweb.cgi/kame/freebsd3/ports/inn/(FreeBSD3)
mnews (client): This software natively supports IPv6 since version 1.22.
You can get it at ftp://ftp.leo.chubu.ac.jp/pub/mnews/.
(Sorry, most documents are written in Japanese, but I beleive it can be used at leaset in English.)
There is also KAME FreeBSD3 ports (Japanese version) at
http://www2.kame.net/dev/cvsweb.cgi/kame/freebsd3/ports/ja-mnews/

Misc

COLD: COLD is a network sniffer and a protocol analyzer. It is distributed freely, so its usage is free and the package is freely available.
OpenLDAP (2.0 or later): OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It now supports IPv6 natively.
GtkHx & hxd: GtkHx is a Hotline client for UNIX systems. By default, it supports IPv6/IPv4.
hxd is a Hotline server for UNIX systems. By default it supports IPv4 only, but there is a compile time option to make it support IPv6.
Ethereal: Ethereal, "Sniffing the glue that holds the Internet together", supports IPv6.

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