Disabling IPv6 on a Pocket PC / Windows Mobile device?
Shadow Hawkins on Thursday, 05 June 2008 21:20:53
I know this goes against the direction of what most of us would like to see....
Having recently made by website 'IPv6 enabled' I've had difficulties accessing the site using my Pocket PC (running Windows Mobile 5) insofar that connections to the site takes around a minute to even get going...
A packet trace on the device reveals why - it only has an IPv4 connection and hence gets given an IPv4 address by DHCP. However, it gives itself an IPv6 link local address too hence when it finds a AAAA record in the DNS it seems to want to try IPv6 first and ends up sending a minutes worth of ICMP6 neighbour solicitations. Only when it gets nothing back does it give up and revert back to IPv4 to establish the connection.
Hence, does anyone know how I can avoid this behaviour? I'm thinking I ideally want to disable IPv6 on the device but I don't know how.
Mathew
Disabling IPv6 on a Pocket PC / Windows Mobile device?
Shadow Hawkins on Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:19:24
Do you acutally have IPv6 working on the device, as in a link-local that is pingable from another machine?
Could you post your registry settings regarding ipv6 for me? =)
Windows mobile only support dhcpv6, so you would need one on your network to assign a public/global IP.
Disabling IPv6 on a Pocket PC / Windows Mobile device?
Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 01 August 2008 11:08:38
Hi Anders,
Unfortunately I don't have an IPv6 network - just a single server tunneling through my v4 network/connection.
Whilst my WM5 device (HTC Prophet) had given itself a link-local IPv6 address I'm not sure how much it supported IPv6 it beyond that...
I have found a solution though to my problem... well, kind of... I've now got a WM6.1 device (HTC Touch Diamond) and that seems to behave itself insofar that it immediately attempts to connect to my server using IPv4 so, for me at least, it's one of those problems that could be ignored and it went away!
Mathew
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