From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 16:34:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7853B1065671 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:34:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrs@cisco.com) Received: from sj-iport-1.cisco.com (sj-iport-1.cisco.com [171.71.176.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DACA8FC13 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:34:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rrs@cisco.com) Received: from sj-dkim-2.cisco.com ([171.71.179.186]) by sj-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 06 Mar 2008 08:07:10 -0800 Received: from sj-core-2.cisco.com (sj-core-2.cisco.com [171.71.177.254]) by sj-dkim-2.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m26G79FK009375; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:07:09 -0800 Received: from xbh-sjc-221.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-221.cisco.com [128.107.191.63]) by sj-core-2.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id m26G6oM3016345; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:07:04 GMT Received: from xfe-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com ([171.70.151.174]) by xbh-sjc-221.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:06:58 -0800 Received: from rrs.local ([171.68.225.134]) by xfe-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:06:57 -0800 Message-ID: <47D016A0.6060003@cisco.com> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:06:56 -0500 From: Randall Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <20080303185618.M63813@shell.xecu.net> <47CC9CD9.9030107@delphij.net> <20080305093215.H4227@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20080305093215.H4227@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2008 16:06:57.0763 (UTC) FILETIME=[1A989330:01C87FA4] DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=1586; t=1204819629; x=1205683629; c=relaxed/simple; s=sjdkim2002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=rrs@cisco.com; z=From:=20Randall=20Stewart=20 |Subject:=20Re=3A=20INET6=20required=20for=20SCTP=20in=207. 0? |Sender:=20; bh=T6G7zFNMH3FLNhx89rvwcmVWpgVxo6Aeid7DtmLEtrc=; b=Msn0u6CAAobCihmGzUddSZfdYlQaypvU2SDQ/y6Lwiy7EZtGpYqh3jjiZC yIURRuqLT/YzNR3LvgY8LqwKDgn5sMrZdRAa2hAn3IzoD/W02oJYbdCKICK8 jHRM4P75Bt; Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-2; header.From=rrs@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim2002 verified; ); Cc: Vadim Goncharov , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:34:52 -0000 Robert/All: One of my colleagues has been working on this in the background. Its not so much as a design choice that has haunted us for many years now. The stack originally was written for KAME and as morphed over time.. this is just one thing we have not fixed. Its in process.. I will check with Michael and see what h is status is on it.. Thanks R Robert Watson wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 803-317-4952 (cell)