From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 09:37:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56E31065673 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:37:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA3B8FC2A for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:37:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JWq4N-0001i4-Jb for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:37:51 +0000 Received: from 195.208.174.178 ([195.208.174.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:37:51 +0000 Received: from vadim_nuclight by 195.208.174.178 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:37:51 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Vadim Goncharov Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Nuclear Lightning @ Tomsk, TPU AVTF Hostel Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <200803041307.m24D7uqE057842@drugs.dv.isc.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.208.174.178 X-Comment-To: Mark Andrews User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Sender: news Subject: Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:37:55 -0000 Hi Mark Andrews! On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:07:56 +1100; Mark Andrews wrote about 'Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?': >>>> I'm not interested in enabling support for IPv6 for now. >>>> >>>> When I remove INET6 from the kernel configuration, I cannot compile the >>>> kernel without disabling SCTP. With fresh 7.0-STABLE source, here's the >>>> error output (INET6 disabled, but SCTP enabled): >>> Yes, INET6 is (currently) required if you enable SCTP. >> >> Will it be fixed? Any time soon? > It would be better to remove the option all together. IPv6 > is no longer a protocol under development. There is no > need to make it optional any more. Having it there really > sends the wrong signal. I strongly disagree. I want to keep my machines without IPv6 as long as possible due to protocol (not implementation) architectural bugs. -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight]