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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:49:03 -0500
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333283 - in head: etc/mtree include share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/net sys/netinet/netdump
Message-ID:  <20181112164903.GD25936@raichu>
In-Reply-To: <EE11707E-35EB-47A4-A723-094F077FFCED@lists.zabbadoz.net>
References:  <201805060038.w460cUTZ079439@repo.freebsd.org> <EE11707E-35EB-47A4-A723-094F077FFCED@lists.zabbadoz.net>

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 03:10:54PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On 6 May 2018, at 0:38, Mark Johnston wrote:
> 
> > Author: markj
> > Date: Sun May  6 00:38:29 2018
> > New Revision: 333283
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/333283
> >
> > Log:
> >   Import the netdump client code.
> 
> So this is an IPv4-only feature;  what would be needed to add IPv6 
> support to netdump?  I don’t like (a) new features going into the tree 
> w/ only IPv4 support and (b) I noticed I can’t use it where I might 
> need it..

One would at least need to:
- ensure that dumpon(8) can pass IPv6 configuration parameters to the
  kernel,
- add code to add IPv6 headers to outbound packets,
- add code to process inbound IPv6 packets,
- use ND to resolve the gateway.

> Can we fix this?

Sure.  I can't promise I will get to it in the near future, but I'm
happy to review patches.



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