From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 11:54:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA15659 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15640 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 11:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA22656; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 14:54:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 14:54:09 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9607291854.AA22656@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Petri Helenius Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IPv6 In-Reply-To: <199607291628.TAA12800@silver.sms.fi> References: <199607291628.TAA12800@silver.sms.fi> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Now with IPv6 stuff popping all over (Solaris, FTP PC/TCP, Telebit, > etc.) is there any plans to do/port something to FreeBSD? There are lots of plans but thus far no results. The problem is that the code quality of the freely-available implementations that we have seen leaves something to be desired, and since FreeBSD has advanced quite far beyond 4.4-Lite even those implementations are not easy to port. There has been some talk in the circles I move in (or more accurately, which move over my head and occasionally condescend to drop some tidbits down to me) of a desire to put together a ``network research community IPv6 reference implementation'' which would include the best parts of the NRL and INRIA codebases along with a lot of new work to bring them up to more reliable standards. I haven't heard anything about this in a few weeks now, and don't know what state (if happening at all) it is in. In any case, these same people have mostly been convinced to run FreeBSD, so such an implementation will very likely drop right in (and should work with other systems, too). Now, all this isn't to say that if someone handed me tomorrow a cleaned-up version of the NRL stack with all the missing pieces filled in and a workable way around the export issue that I would be averse to using it---far from it. But, that seems like a large amount of work, and I have been told obliquely that I shouldn't spend any of MIT's time (read: money) on such an effort. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick