From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 18:44:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04528 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tecumseh.altavista-software.com (tecumseh.altavista-software.com [205.181.164.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04520 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@3am-software.com) Received: from nowin (1Cust84.max14.boston.ma.ms.uu.net [153.35.76.84]) by tecumseh.altavista-software.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA13479; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:43:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801250243.VAA13479@tecumseh.altavista-software.com> X-Sender: 3ampop@ranier.altavista-software.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:43:18 -0500 To: Terry Lambert From: Matt Thomas Subject: Re: IPv6 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801250011.RAA12627@usr04.primenet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 07:11 PM 1/24/98 , Terry Lambert wrote: >> 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... > >Is there a seperate address family for this? Yes. AF_INET6/PF_INET6. There is one RFC and one draft RFC regarding the socket APIs to IPv6. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt/ Nashua, NH Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message