From owner-freebsd-net Wed May 13 02:26:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA20027 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 02:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA19783; Wed, 13 May 1998 02:25:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA09483; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:24:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:24:38 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh Cc: Petri Helenius , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Guido van Rooij , peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), net@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INRIA IPv6 on FreeBSD References: <13955.895050568@coconut.itojun.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 13 May 1998 11:24:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh's message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 18:09:28 +0900" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh writes: > > both stacks have different interfaces (e.g. different locations for > > IPv6 header files; INRIA places its headers in /usr/include/netinet/ > > and modifies some of the existing headers, whereas WIDE places its > > headers in /usr/include/netinet6/ and tries to modify as few existing > > files as possible). This means that whichever stack we choose, > > All we have to conform for header file placement is two RFCs > (RFC2133 and RFC2292). WIDE stack for 2.2.6 is aimed for > plug-and-play installation so we do want to patch small number > of files as possible so we have chosen to put those files into > sys/netinet6. (of course, we are flexible about this and may try to > move those into sys/netinet, if there's any significant differences) My position on this is that if you consider IPv6 as a new, separate protocol (as I do) then it should go into a separate directory. If you consider it as an update of an older protocol, it should go into the same directory. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message