IPv6 on iPhone

yes I'd like to know also when it will support IPv6 natively.
I would invite apple engineers to attend www.ietf.org where they set up an IPv6 wifi only network at each meeting to allow engineers to test applications and devices.

One has to be mindful to put IPv6 optional on the iPhone to ensure, until IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, all applications works seamlessly.

N.B. Stuart Cheshire, who currently sits on the Internet Architecture Board, is an Apple employee.

Just ot "bump" this again. I don't think the current firmware (2.0.2) support IPv6 at all. I do run IPv6 on my home network and the iphone doesn't work 😟 . My other Mac's have no issues.

How can I setup a IPv6 network?

While I can't comment on the iPhone in particular, any MacOS X computer on the same network will be able to talk to each other via IPv6 by default. For Windows, Linux or any other platform you should do a search with the following keywords (if windows is your platform):

enabling ipv6 windows

To be able to talk to servers beyond your network, such as ipv6.google.com, you will either need an ISP that supports IPv6 or get hold of a 6to4 style solution, one of which being available from http://www.sixxs.net, in the form of Aiccu:

https://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Aiccu

I only suggest Aiccu, since this is the one I am using.

How did you check the IPv6 support? Have you tested both Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity? Trying to connect to ipv6.google.com works in neither case? I don't currently have an iPhone myself, so I would be curious to know.

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Now that I have an iPhone myself, I did a simple test which confirmed that IPv6 support is not active for the iPhone. The test was done with firmware 2.0.2.

To test it I added a web page on my Mac (using Apache 2, with IPv6 support enabled), that pointed back its numeric IPv6 address (something like http://[[2001:4978:15d::1]]/ ) and when I clicked on the link Safari told me that the "Operation could not be completed. Address family not supported by protocol family". Additionally there are no square brackets support on the keyboard in Safari on the iPhone, preventing input of IPv6 numeric addresses.

Upgraded to 2.2, still no IPv6 support. Bump, bump. C'mon Apple, enable inet6 already...