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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com>,
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Subject: Re: INRIA IPv6 on FreeBSD
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 May 1998 12:47:18 +0800."
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Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 02:52:15 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I guess the real question is... where do we want to end up? Do we want
> to end up with a seamlessly integrated IPv6, or something that's kept at
Seamless works for me, anyway. :)
> arm's length? Also, there are other IPv6 implementations out there,
> perhaps the most important is the Linux 2.1.x version. Where do they put
> there include files? Putting our includes in a gratuitously different
We're so different than Linux from the API perspective that this may
well end up being something of a fool's errand. Sure, we could take
substantial pains to be header-compatible with IPv6, but I think we'd
only find that we were still incompatible with most of their other
networking headers. :-)
- Jordan
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