Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:17:49 +0100 From: Thomas Seidmann <tseidmann@simultan.ch> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IPv6 in -current Message-ID: <3635F22D.1A6B9EB4@simultan.ch>
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Hi I'm using FreeBSD as my main and almost exclusive networking platform, at university (STU Bratislva, Slovakia), at work, and at home since a long time ago. Since I do research in networking, I'd really love to see IPv6 in FreeBSD; moreover I'm ready to do a lot about this. To my knowledge there are at least two IPv6 implementations for FreeBSD: INRIA and KAME. I'm working for over 1 year with INRIA, in fact I'm operating two 6bone sites (STUBA and SIMULTAN) and have also experience with programming for IPv6, as well as quite deep insight into the INRIA IPv6 protocol stack (and BSD networking of course :-)). INRIA seems to have a much more mature status than KAME (with my full respect to the latter), so I'd opt for the integration of INRIA IPv6 into FreeBSD-current. INRIA's distribution is quite huge. Among others it contains ALTQ, some additional ATM stuff etc. I'd prefer to separate the core protocol and its support (mainly in libc) from this additional stuff. For example I've seen the offer of Andre Oppermann to integrate ALTQ on this list. Here's my proposal: 1. I could integrate INRIA's IPv6 implementation into -current. That means the kernel code, changes to libraries and network utilities (like ifconfig etc). Additional IPv6 applications could be packaged (ported) separately. 2. I'd watch for changes in the INRIA distribution and integrate them into -current. Possible caveats: 1. License. As far as I've seen, there shouldn't be any problem, but this is only IMHO. 2. Alternative IPv6 implementations. I could imagine the life of the KAME team not getting easier with the presence of another IPv6 protocol implementation in -current. Please let me know what you think. If there is a more appropriate way of doing what I want to do, I'd be thankful for hints. In fact, I could start with the integration next week. Thank you very much Regards, Thomas -- ========================================================== Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Seidmann Senior IT systems architect Simultan AG, CH-6246 Altishofen, Switzerland mailto:tseidmann@simultan.ch tel +41.62.7489000 http://www.simultan.ch/~thomas fax +41.62.7489010 ========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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