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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:05:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      Jean-Luc Richier <Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr>
To:        Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@enst-bretagne.fr>, souissi@nic.fr, snap-users@kame.net, Francois.Tigeot@nic.fr
Cc:        Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (KAME-snap 3974) Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS)
Message-ID:  <200102051505.QAA00704@horus.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: Francis Dupont's message as of Jan 25, 16:49.

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Dans votre courrier du 25 Jan 16:49 vous ecrivez :
> In your previous mail you wrote:
>   
>   	It is not impossible to support IPv6 NFS without switching to TI-RPC,
>   	INRIA IPv6 has the code (IIRC).
>
>=> this code was ported to FreeBSD 4.2. I'll give more details as soon as
>I am back to my office (ie. next week).

The code is available on ftp.imag.fr, directory
/archive/networking/ipv6/INRIA/FreeBSD4
files FILES-NFS-FreeBSD42.tgz (files) or   PATCH-NFS-FreeBSD42 (patch)
It as been tested against Solaris8.

>
>        However, if you try this, there will
>   	be a lot of of non-intuitive typecast against library arguments.
>   
>=> this is a matter of taste. TI-RPC is not perfect tooo (:-).

and also the old RPC interface is too weak to manage correctly different
types of transport at the same time.

It agree that a long term solution is to change to the TI-RPC interface,
but the real TI-RPC libraries are complicated. 

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Jean-Luc RICHIER (Jean-Luc.Richier@Imag.Fr  richier@imag.fr)
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