Up to now an initial version of the following functionality has been made:
The code supports the basic IPv6 data sending and receiving. There are some big limitations at the moment - communications must be be local, because Neigbor Discovery Protocol that allows to resolve link-layer addresses is not implemented yet; and raw sockets must be used for communication, since neither UDP nor TCP is supported yet.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/kfx/2010-07-05_gsoc_ipv6_implementation_progress/