IPv6 on a WIFI Sheild

Projects Networking, Protocols, and Devices
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Hi,
I'm looking to start a project that will be using a Wifi Sheild, this will need to be able to handle IPv6 IP addresses. Does the WiFi Shield from Arduino support IPv6? If not is there a third party shield that will?

Thanks.

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Does the WiFi Shield from Arduino support IPv6?

No, it doesn't and probably never will.

If not is there a third party shield that will?

To my knowledge: no. If you need to handle IPv6 traffic, use an embedded Linux system (Raspberry Pi, Cubieboard, PCduino, etc.) they are able to handle it although it might be disabled by default on most distributions that run on them.
You might get it to run on an Arduino Yun because that uses an embedded Linux on the WiFi side but I did never try that. At least theoretically it should be possible.