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On 10/18/10 23:19, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to find out what the status of Mobile IPv6 in the FreeBSD
> network stack is. So far I discovered some traces in the rtadvd man
> page, but the rtadvd code doesn't seem to contain Mobile IPv6
> support.. The most recent info I found is this KAME newsletter:
> http://www.kame.net/newsletter/20050707/ It doesn't seem to me that this
> SHISA stack was integrated into mainline FreeBSD.
> 
> Can somebody comment on the status of Mobile IPv6 in FreeBSD?

As far as I'm aware, there's no support in the base system. Many years
ago I worked on a MIPv6 FreeBSD testbed. The tech report is very old,
but might provide some useful nuggets of information:

http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/040331A/CAIA-TR-040331A.pdf

Cheers,
Lawrence