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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:53:51 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Yoshinobu Inoue <shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Solicite review for KAME 3rd patch]
Message-ID:  <19991220135351.A10996@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199912090651.IAA95501@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>; from John Hay on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 08:51:38AM %2B0200
References:  <19991206195341.B11220@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <199912090651.IAA95501@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>

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On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 08:51:38AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > Well, a make world shouldn't be dying from lack of specifying INET6.  I
> > wonder how to best tackle this problem.  I mean, we want IPv6 support to
> > be there when we want it, and not there when we don't.  Ideas of how to
> > solve this small kludge are welcome.
> > 
> 
> My suggestion would be to always enable IPv6 support in the userlevel
> programs.

No!  ``netstat -rn'' is now useless on a console terminal.  The whole
-DINET6 stuff needs to be moved to /etc/make.conf.  At the moment there
is now way for me to turn the IPV6 userland stuff off easily.
Alternately, the output formatting could be changed, but ``ifconfig -rn''
needs to be neatly readble on an 80 column display.  We cater to the
server market, where a large number of machines run headless on console
servers.


> The same is done with IPX. Ifconfig, netstat and those programs are
> always compiled with IPX support even if you don't have IPX in the
> kernel.

Including IPX support didn't fsck up the output of ``netstat -rn''.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@FreeBSD.org)




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