Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:02:39 +0900
From:      Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Subject:   Re: IPv6 
Message-ID:  <2971.885610959@coconut.itojun.org>
In-Reply-To: roberto's message of Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:50:38 %2B0100. <19980123215037.17725@keltia.freenix.fr> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>> 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]).

	WIDE Project has several implementations.
	I happened to be one of main hackers for "hydrangea" implementation,
	which is mainly done on FreeBSD (supports BSDI and NetBSD too)
	So ask me anything about this. :-)

	Luckily enough Japan has no restriction on crypto software.  So,
	"hydrangea" implementation includes IPsec.  It also includes
	IPv6-over-ATM.  Our code is heavily used in Japan 6bone.
	Visit ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/ipv6/ to fetch the latest kit.

>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).

	As stated above WIDE has several implementations.  "v6d"
	implementation (done by onoe@sm.sony.co.jp) is daemon-based.
	Others are kernel-based.

Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh
itojun@itojun.org



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?2971.885610959>