From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 14:31:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23065 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23052 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:31:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id XAA25007; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:30:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.8/keltia-2.13/nospam) id VAA10897; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:50:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19980123215037.17725@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:50:38 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= Subject: Re: IPv6 Mail-Followup-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88.14i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzp4t2vb585=2Efsf=40naglfar=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_on_Fri=2C_Jan_23=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_04=3A05=3A46PM_+0100?= X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3994 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav: > Any plans for adding native IPv6 support to FreeBSD? It would seem > that NetBSD already has such support, and I've been told there are > some third-party drivers for FreeBSD. The Jury is still out about which version of the various IPv6 stacks we would be using. Two I know of are pretty advanced and working (the INRIA one made by Francis Dupont[1] for 2.2.*) and the Japanese one (Wide Project[2]). The former is used in many 6bone sites in France along with some "private" implementations (Dassault Aviation for example). IBM decided to take Francis' code as base for their AIX IPv6 stack. Francis started writing his stack for NetBSD and keeps on maintaining it although most of his work is done now using FreeBSD. This is the one I'd like to see in FreeBSD :-) One of the interesting things I've heard about the Wide implementation is that they use a user-mode daemon to do most of the work (to be confirmed, I've not seen the code). Ipsilon has also a private implementation for its FreeBSD based routers. Here is one message from Garrett Wollman back in October about the NRL code. -=-=-=- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:59:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman To: Petri Helenius Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 sources w/out export restriction < said: > What other working implementations there are in addition to the INRIA > one (for FreeBSD)? There's the DARTNET one based on the NRL code (which is radically restructured every week or so I'm told, making it difficult to keep a stable code base). There's the one from WIDE in Japan. I've talked with people who know of others, but I can't be more specific. IPv6 right now is a research vehicle. It will not be production technology for some years. It would be very, very premature to incorporate any one implementation into our source tree at this time. -=-=-=- There is also a release of IPv6 Mobile for FreeBSD. See the archives, I think it was announced in -announce. I'll probably work more on IPv6 at work where we have a project involving ATM, Satellites and IPv6. They started with Solaris and Linux but after taking me into the project, two FreeBSD machines magically appeared one day and one is our IPv6 tunnel connection to the G6 (french branch of the 6bone) :-) ----- [1] [2] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #4: Sun Jan 18 15:50:16 CET 1998