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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:32:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?
Message-ID:  <20080305093215.H4227@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrnfsq3nt.1qi3.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net>
References:  <20080303185618.M63813@shell.xecu.net> <47CC9CD9.9030107@delphij.net> <slrnfsq3nt.1qi3.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net>

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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



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