From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 22 1:24:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7503214D3C; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA11656; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:22:30 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199907220822.KAA11656@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ?? In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "Jul 21, 1999 12:16:22 pm" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:22:30 +0200 (SAT) Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you just teasing or are you serious? I searched through their site (again), but except for being mentioned in their TODO for the past few months, I can't find anything that indicates that they or anyone else is working on it. They may be, but it isn't visible anywhere where I have looked. It would be nice if there was some place to follow their progress, because I'm also one of the people that would like to see IPv6 integrated into FreeBSD. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za > > FreeBSD will have native IPV6 within a matter of weeks at this stage.. > the code is being readied as we speak. see www.kame.net . 3 sets of > developers for FreeBSD IPV6 have merged their efforts and the result of > this should be available by the end of summer (Northern). (which isn't > far away now..) > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > So is FreeBSD *EVER* going to see native IPv6 ?? > > I attended a talk by a group of Intrusion Detection researchers. They > > were basing their research on FreeBSD because they needed divert > > sockets and found FreeBSD worked perfectly for this in this respect. > > However, once they needed IPv6 and IPsec guess what happened??? They > > moved to Linux and now have such a time investment in their custom kernel > > hacks FreeBSD will never be an option for them again. > > > > NetBSD and OpenBSD get more and more coverage from IPv6/IPsec > > capabilities every day. FreeBSD has lost considerable ground if we want > > to be a platform of choice for network and security researchers. > > > > Now ever LSOF has IPv6 support for NetBSD and OpenBSD... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message