Windows Vista cannot run on IPv6

According to the latest foreign media reports, the first user to use Microsoft's new operating system Windows Vista revealed that there are problems with the implementation of IPv6 in the new operating system, while IPv6 is the next generation Internet protocol that people expect.
IPv6 supports 128-bit addressing and can provide addresses almost without restrictions. Estimate the actually allocable IPv6 addresses in a conservative way. More than 1000 Addresses can be allocated per square meter of the Earth. In addition to solving address shortage once and for all during IPv6 design, other problems that cannot be solved in IPv4 are also considered. IPv6 has the following advantages: Expanding address space, improving the overall network throughput, and improving service quality (QoS) and better security, support for plug-and-play and mobility, and better implement multicast functions.

Vista supports IPv6 by default. To support IPv6, Vista's network stacks are completely re-developed. Now, the upgrade to IPv6 has started. For a long time, IPv4 and IPv6 networks will coexist, which means that IPv6 and IPv4 can exchange protocols intelligently, and communicate with each other on the network.

Currently, many network management software vendors and users have found that IPv6 execution of Vista has problems. Professionals summarize these issues, mainly focusing on compatibility and transparency issues in IP behavior. For example, Vista does not expose any Internet Control Message Protocol (Internet Control Message Protocol) errors to applications in the operating system, so that the application will not obtain this information, the result is that the network cannot run, which is a big problem for users who use Vista. It is unclear why Vista cannot support IPv6 normally.

In addition, some technical sources revealed that many Vista programs cannot perform the addressing that IPv6 should have. For example, when IPv6 network protocols are used for printing, at this time, the network printer will not be able to work. If IPv6 is deleted, the printing will resume normal.