From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 21 20:19:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA1515530; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id MAA21568; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:19:12 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37E843F4.665D4502@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:50:28 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stefan parvu Cc: FreeBSD Questions , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 on 3.2 STABLE ? References: <37E73063.8AD59A0D@comptel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG stefan parvu wrote: > > Hello, > > Last night I worked to port some code to FreeBSD 3.2 Stable. > I was curious about one fact: on there is no any in6_addr > support for IPv6. Am I wrong ? FreeBSD does not support IPv6 ? Sure it does. It just doesn't come out of the box with it because there were too many choices. There were three IPv6 stacks with FreeBSD versions, and the core team decided to wait until one of these stacks came out the "winner" before committing it to the tree. It should be clear that committing to any one too soon would stagnate FreeBSD development for the others. Meanwhile, anyone could just grab the source for any of these stacks and install it. Alas, they finally decided to join their efforts, which goes to show that the core team decision was on the mark. It's my impression that we'll have IPv6 stack on -stable for the next release. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Thus, over the years my wife and I have physically diverged. While I have zoomed toward a crusty middle-age, she has instead clung doggedly to the sweet bloom of youth. Naturally I think this unfair. Yet, if it was the other way around, I confess I wouldn't be happy either." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message