Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:14:26 +0100 (CET) From: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> To: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: faith(4) / faithd(8) removal Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1410271707390.31010@strudel.ki.iif.hu> In-Reply-To: <544E2FA4.8080003@FreeBSD.org> References: <544E2FA4.8080003@FreeBSD.org>
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Dear Alexander, On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I'd like to remove faith (IPv6/v4 translator) from base. > > * It does not seem like a proper way to translate between IPv4/IPv6 traffic. It is a proper way to translate between IPv4 and IPv6 TCP as defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3142 However if there no need for TRT among the FreeBSD users it is completely acceptable to remove from the system. Best Regards, Janos Mohacsi > There are several well-documented (and already implemented) technologies: > Stateful/stateless NAT64 (rfc 6146, 6145), 464XLAT (6877). > Unfortunately, we don't have in-kernel NAT64 implementation, but there > are > some userland-base one, like net/tayga64. > * It does complicate IPv6 processing path > * It does not seem to be used: last non-trivial commit was 10 years ago > (126781). > * OpenBSD removed it in 2013: > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/Attic/if_faith.c > > If there are no objections I'll remove it in a week. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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