From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 00:12:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18013 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:12:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [207.31.78.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17909; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA09383; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 02:57:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 02:57:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 In-Reply-To: <7192.885628342@coconut.itojun.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote: > We'll be very happy if we can merge ours into, but it is up to > core-team to decide which IPv6 stack to be merged. There are > several candidates such as NRL, INRIA, and others. > I asked about the merge in the past several times, but the answer > was "core team do not want to decide that at this moment". > (how is the situation right now? >core-team) I wouldn't say that a main-tree merge would be the way to go but rather a vendor branch like the CAM stuff (i believe.) It would allow some hacking but would not make the WIDE stuff an 'official' IPv6 stack for freebsd. > Also, the merger of IPsec part should be done very carefully. (US > export-control issue, as usual...) Bah. :) > Though we haven't released snapshot for NetBSD yet (we are working > on userland tools right now), it is on NetBSD-1.3. When do you expect a release and would it be possible to get a kernel only release diff? /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */