From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 5 7: 5:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from horus.imag.fr (horus.imag.fr [129.88.38.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3364C37B491 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 07:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from richier@localhost) by horus.imag.fr (8.9.3/8.8.6) id QAA00704; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:05:36 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:05:36 +0100 (MET) From: Jean-Luc Richier Message-Id: <200102051505.QAA00704@horus.imag.fr> In-Reply-To: Francis Dupont's message as of Jan 25, 16:49. Organization: IMAG, Grenoble, France X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Francis Dupont , souissi@nic.fr, snap-users@kame.net, Francois.Tigeot@nic.fr Subject: Re: (KAME-snap 3974) Re: TI-RPC, IPv6 and NFS (was: Re: strong recommendation re: NFS) Cc: Feico Dillema , Matt Dillon , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Jean-Luc RICHIER (Jean-Luc.Richier@Imag.Fr richier@imag.fr) Laboratoire Logiciels, Systemes et Reseaux (LSR-IMAG) IMAG-CAMPUS, BP 72, F-38402 St Martin d'Heres Cedex Tel : +33 4 76 82 72 32 Fax : +33 4 76 82 72 87 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message