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Subject: Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Vadim Goncharov wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:50:33 -0800; Xin LI wrote about 'Re: INET6 required 
> for SCTP in 7.0?':
>
>>> I'm not interested in enabling support for IPv6 for now.
>>>
>>> When I remove INET6 from the kernel configuration, I cannot compile the 
>>> kernel without disabling SCTP. With fresh 7.0-STABLE source, here's the 
>>> error output (INET6 disabled, but SCTP enabled):
>> Yes, INET6 is (currently) required if you enable SCTP.
>
> Will it be fixed? Any time soon?

It's considered a bug, and hopefully it will be fixed by the SCTP maintainers 
soon.  However, they've been fairly busy with another project so I'm not sure 
there's a specific timeline.  I would like to see it fixed by 7.1.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge