[Ns-developers] Does NS2 /NS3 support IPv6 ?

[Tom Henderson]

Bahareh_ntc at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi Dear all,
> 
> 
> I read recently about NS3 and I saw the initial step of "IPv6 enable " was started by December 2008. So any idea ?
>  I just would like to make sure does NS2 support IPv6 or no? because so
> far I thought there is no so much difference between  IPv4 or IPv6 SIMULATION in Ns2
> Please if any of you simulated IPv6 in NS2 gives his/her opinion about the difficulties/bgs of that simulation.
> Thank you.
> 
> looking forward to hear your comments.
> regards
> Bahareh.

Bahareh,
This paper describes an initial IPv6 implementation for ns-3.
http://lsiit.u-strasbg.fr/Publications/2008/VMM08/

It is also described in more detail here:
http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-June/004283.html

Although initial pieces (IPv6 address) were merged in a previous ns-3 
release, merge of the rest has been on hold until some IPv4 refactoring 
in ns-3 was completed.  I expect that the ns-3.5 release (June 
timeframe?) will start to have more functional IPv6 models.

As far as I know, there is not an IPv6 model for ns-2, although models 
of a few IPv6-specific protocols (e.g., Mobile IPv6) are available for 
some ns-2 releases.

Tom