From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 04:11:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA06039 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 04:11:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@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 EAA06022 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 04:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no (2602@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.40]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA15624; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:30:41 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:30:40 +0100 (MET) To: Ollivier Robert Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav Subject: Re: IPv6 References: <19980123215037.17725@keltia.freenix.fr> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 24 Jan 1998 11:30:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Ollivier Robert's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:50:38 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Ollivier Robert writes: > From: Garrett Wollman > > 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. I beg to differ. My reason for asking is that I know several people who are actively involved in IPv6 work (CommSys research being done at the University of Oslo), and they are less than happy about Linux' IPv6 stack. Solid IPv6 support would IMHO give FreeBSD a considerable edge over Linux in these circles. Also, much of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin will break when IPv6 finally hits the street, because of assumptions such as IP addresses being four bytes long, etc. Making this software indifferent to the particular IP version they run on would give FreeBSD a serious advantage on "the day when the Internet switches to IPv6". Remember that very soon, IPv6 will no longer be science-fiction or just a nifty toy, but a necessity. We are this >< close to exhausting the current 32-bit address space... -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"