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Subject: IPv6 && -current
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<<On Thu, 3 Apr 1997 16:06:41 +0200 (MET DST), Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl> said:

> What is the status of IPv6 implementation under -current? I'd be probably
> interested in setting up a machine and a tunnel to 6bone, so I would
> gladly use FreeBSD for this, if it's possible...

I am aware of two implementations out there, and the unfortunate truth
is that both of them suck, in different ways.  (Although at least one
of them, I am told, is getting significantly better stylistically.)
Until this situation changes a bit more (or we find someone interested
in doing an IPv6 implementation that obeys style(9) and isn't
altogether bletcherous), there should not be IPv6 code in the -current
kernel.

However, having said that, I certainly see no bar to making whatever
changes in the rest of the kernel are necessary to support the drop-in
of one of these stacks (probably the NRL one).

-GAWollman

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