From owner-freebsd-net Tue May 12 05:38:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24938 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 05:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24894; Tue, 12 May 1998 05:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no (2602@yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.182]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id OAA04640; Tue, 12 May 1998 14:36:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by yggdrasil.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 12 May 1998 14:36:50 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: net@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: INRIA IPv6 on FreeBSD Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 12 May 1998 14:36:49 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Weee, a lot of things have been happening lately. To sum it up briefly, the Department of Informatics (Ifi) at the University of Oslo has an IPng research lab (Norway's first IPv6 installation). And one of the computers (fixus) there is running FreeBSD... Being one of the very few FreeBSD-competent persons at Ifi, and the only one daring enough (or stupid enough) to just walk in and ask for an account, I am now sysadmin on fixus :) The problem is that the INRIA IPv6 stack (which, according to our IPv6 experts, is the best one available) only runs on FreeBSD 2.2.5R, and I really, really want to run 3.0-CURRENT (or at the very least 2.2.6-STABLE) on it. So I have three choices (in descending order of workload): - upgrade to STABLE or CURRENT, and port INRIA IPv6 to that. - switch to a different IPv6 implementation (the other people using this machine might object). - forget it. Naturally, I would prefer the first alternative. It is MHO (and I have voiced it before) that FreeBSD should jump on board the IPv6 train as soon as possible. I have just sent an e-mail to Francis Dupont (author of the INRIA IPv6 stack) expressing more or less what I am writing here. So how do you feel about integrating the INRIA IPv6 stack into FreeBSD CURRENT? -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message