From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 23 19:03:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20316 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 19:03:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coconut.itojun.org (root@coconut.itojun.org [210.160.95.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20296 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 19:02:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itojun@itojun.org) Received: from localhost (itojun@localhost.itojun.org [127.0.0.1]) by coconut.itojun.org (8.8.8+3.0Wbeta11/3.6W) with ESMTP id MAA02975; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:02:39 +0900 (JST) To: Ollivier Robert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= In-reply-to: roberto's message of Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:50:38 +0100. <19980123215037.17725@keltia.freenix.fr> X-Template-Reply-To: itojun@itojun.org X-Template-Return-Receipt-To: itojun@itojun.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: F8 24 B4 2C 8C 98 57 FD 90 5F B4 60 79 54 16 E2 Subject: Re: IPv6 From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:02:39 +0900 Message-ID: <2971.885610959@coconut.itojun.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> 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