Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:24:34 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 in -current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810291923220.29446-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199810291858.UAA26651@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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It would look Really Good on, say, 3.1-RELEASE release notes to say: * Full IPv6 implementation in-kernel and libc! Just a thought :) Cheersm Brian Feldman On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, John Hay wrote: > > > > > we can get a version of IPv6 standard in FreeBSD. I have been looking at > > > (and using) the KAME stuff the last few weeks and am quite impressed > > > with it. One of the advantages (for me) about the KAME stack is that we > > > also get their IPSEC stuff, while with INRIA being in France, it makes > > > things a little more complicated. > > > > Don't forget there's also the group of people who worked on the NRL > > stack.... > > I didn't. I explicitly left them about because of two reasons. Because > I'm not in the USA and I'm not a USA citizen, I can't get hold of it. > Then also according to their web site they only cater for BSDI, NetBSD > and Linux, with a promise that they will support FreeBSD in their next > release. > > But I don't really mind which one we are using. Any one that is part > of FreeBSD will make my life easier. Most of the stacks available > only support a specific release, so if you are running stable or > current you have to constantly merge. (Well actually current is out > of the question at the moment because none of them support 3.0 let > alone current and that is actually where it would like it, because > most of our test boxes run current.) > > > The other question that people have to consider whenever IPv6 comes > > up: with whom are you going to communicate? Right now, there is no > > globally-routed IPv6 infrastructure, and there is unlikely to be any, > > any time soon (IOS 12, anyone?). I am prefectly happy with the state > > of the world where we can advance our technological goals in the > > context of IPv4, and let other parties provide an IPv6 implementation. > > While it is not native, the 6bone is up and running and people are using > it to test compatability of the different stacks and other things. Our > side of the 6bone tunnel is a FreeBSD box running the KAME stack and the > other side is a Cisco somewhere in the USA. > > I do agree that IPv4 will be the main protocol for while, the other side > is that IPv6 is coming and we shouldn't wait too long to incorporate it. > By having a standard stack we can unite the FreeBSD IPv6 users and get > it better tested than currently where we are split up between the > different stacks. > > John > -- > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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