Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:50:38 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Subject: Re: IPv6 Message-ID: <19980123215037.17725@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzp4t2vb585=2Efsf=40naglfar=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_fro?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?m_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_on_Fri=2C_Jan_23=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_04=3A05=3A46PM_%2B0100?= References: <xzp4t2vb585.fsf@naglfar.ifi.uio.no>
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According to Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav:
> Any plans for adding native IPv6 support to FreeBSD? It would seem
> that NetBSD already has such support, and I've been told there are
> some third-party drivers for FreeBSD.
The Jury is still out about which version of the various IPv6 stacks we
would be using. Two I know of are pretty advanced and working (the INRIA
one made by Francis Dupont[1] for 2.2.*) and the Japanese one (Wide
Project[2]).
The former is used in many 6bone sites in France along with some "private"
implementations (Dassault Aviation for example). IBM decided to take
Francis' code as base for their AIX IPv6 stack. Francis started writing his
stack for NetBSD and keeps on maintaining it although most of his work is
done now using FreeBSD. This is the one I'd like to see in FreeBSD :-)
One of the interesting things I've heard about the Wide implementation is
that they use a user-mode daemon to do most of the work (to be confirmed,
I've not seen the code).
Ipsilon has also a private implementation for its FreeBSD based routers.
Here is one message from Garrett Wollman back in October about the NRL code.
-=-=-=-
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: IPv6 sources w/out export restriction
<<On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 18:54:03 +0300 (EEST), Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> said:
> What other working implementations there are in addition to the INRIA
> one (for FreeBSD)?
There's the DARTNET one based on the NRL code (which is radically
restructured every week or so I'm told, making it difficult to keep a
stable code base). There's the one from WIDE in Japan. I've talked
with people who know of others, but I can't be more specific.
IPv6 right now is a research vehicle. It will not be production
technology for some years. It would be very, very premature to
incorporate any one implementation into our source tree at this time.
-=-=-=-
There is also a release of IPv6 Mobile for FreeBSD. See the archives, I
think it was announced in -announce.
I'll probably work more on IPv6 at work where we have a project involving
ATM, Satellites and IPv6. They started with Solaris and Linux but after
taking me into the project, two FreeBSD machines magically appeared one day
and one is our IPv6 tunnel connection to the G6 (french branch of the
6bone) :-)
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[1] <mailto:Francis.Dupont@inria.fr>
<ftp://ftp.inria.fr/network/ipv6/>;
[2] <http://www.v6.wide.ad.jp/>;
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
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